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Recycle Crisis Sweeps Across America After China Halts Plastic Waste Imports
Recycle Crisis Sweeps Across America After China Halts Plastic Waste Imports The green movement of the 1970s formed the modern American recycling industry, although there is some concern today that it could be collapsing in many parts of the country, The New York Times warned. “The sooner we accept the economic impracticality of recycling, the sooner […]
“Pollution Panic” Strikes US Cities As Officials Face Consequences of China’s Waste Blockade
“Pollution Panic” Strikes US Cities As Officials Face Consequences of China’s Waste Blockade Beginning in Feb 2017, as part of China’s broader “National Sword” campaign, the largest buyer of recyclables from the US, banned 24 types of solid waste from being imported and placed tougher restrictions on the ones it continues to accept. The move left the recycling industry and […]
Your Recycling Might Be Poisoning Poor Communities
Your Recycling Might Be Poisoning Poor Communities You know the routine, which has become a required liturgical rubric of the American civic religion. You separate your trash: plastics here, glass here, cans here, papers here. Doing so is our little way of showing we care about the environment. Not doing so – let’s just say […]
How Circular is the Circular Economy?
How Circular is the Circular Economy? Illustration: Diego Marmolejo. Introducing the Circular Economy The circular economy has become, for many governments, institutions, companies, and environmental organisations, one of the main components of a plan to lower carbon emissions. In the circular economy, resources would be continually re-used, meaning that there would be no more mining […]
Repurposing Wood
REPURPOSING WOOD Not so long ago, my wife Emma and I bought our property, a place for which we’d been looking for nearly four years. And, in doing so, the enormity of what we were about to undertake sunk in. I’d been gathering up wood in anticipation of us needing to build a home, but […]
The Perils of Plastic Pollution
The Perils of Plastic Pollution Plastics are found in the products we use every day: the toys we give our children, the clothing we wear, the disposable cups we drink from, the automobiles we make, the straws we use, the list goes on. Cheap and easy to make, plastic goods and plastic production have exploded […]
Low Oil Prices Take Their Toll On Recycling Sector
Low Oil Prices Take Their Toll On Recycling Sector “Plastics,” Mr. McGuire tells Ben Braddock in the 1967 film “The Graduate.” He was impressing on the young man the importance of one of the chief branches of the oil industry: Virtually every item available at the time contained plastic, or was packaged in it. So […]
Getting it wrong on recycling
Getting it wrong on recycling Let’s see what those disparaging America’s rate of recycling as “too high” either get completely wrong or fail to understand. You can read recent commentary suggesting that the recycling rate is too high here, here and here. The number one complaint is that it costs more to recycle some categories of waste than to […]
6 Useful Ends for Spent Tea and Coffee
6 Useful Ends for Spent Tea and Coffee Coffee is just divine. I’ve woken up other ways and have even taken to drinking a glass of water first thing every morning, before coffee happens, but nothing makes the world feel so right as the sun coming up over a steaming mug, even in—especially in—the muggy […]
Canadians piling up more garbage than ever before as disposables rule
Canadians piling up more garbage than ever before as disposables rule There’s a high price to pay for our love affair with products of convenience We like to think we’re behaving like model citizens, hauling our recycling to the curb and composting our banana peels. But the sad truth is, Canadians are piling up more household garbage […]
The circular economy’s missing ingredient: Local
The circular economy’s missing ingredient: Local Courtesy ofMari Viramontes The Chicago flag, made from wood salvaged at The Plant. One Saturday in early June, a group of people gathered behind an old meatpacking plant on Chicago’s South Side, armed with shovels and handmade compost sifters. In teams of three, the group began sifting a huge […]
THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX
The Workshop/Store in Paris’ 18th Arrondissement – Photo (CC): Carton plein THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX In the North of Paris, the Carton plein association collects, cleans and sells discarded boxes. People in precarious situations recycle, deliver by bike and help move – gaining professional and life skills in the process. It all began with […]
Local Governments Increasingly Poking Through Your Garbage
Local Governments Increasingly Poking Through Your Garbage Civil libertarians are worried about an increasingly common form of domestic surveillance that has nothing to do with listening to your phone calls or reading your emails; it has to do with looking through your garbage. Municipalities across the United States are implementing intrusive methods of monitoring the stuff […]
Toxic Waste Sullies Solar’s Squeaky Clean Image
Toxic Waste Sullies Solar’s Squeaky Clean Image Toxic sludge and filthy air – byproducts of the oil and coal industries – are a constant irritant for opponents and even proponents of fossil fuels, while renewables like wind and solar are often seen as bastions of rectitude for their relative cleanliness. However, before the proponents of […]
AmeriScan: November 13, 2014 | Environment News Service
AmeriScan: November 13, 2014 | Environment News Service. … Utah Recycler Abandons Tons of Toxic e-Waste … U.S. Forces Smelly SO2 Emitters Into $50 Million Upgrades … PEER: ‘Cattle Trample Sage-grouse Recovery’ … Green Groups Sue to Save Walruses from Arctic Drilling … Conservation Partners Envision Recovery From BP Oil Spill … Anti-Nuclear Pioneer Honored by 14 Organizations Utah Recycler […]
