by Zach Dawes Jr | Apr 21, 2022 | News
Nearly everyone on the planet is breathing air that could have adverse health impacts, according to a Word Health Organization report published April 4. “The evidence base for the harm caused by air pollution has been growing rapidly and points to significant harm...
by Monty Self | Feb 14, 2022 | Opinion
Face masks, vaccines and testing have become a daily theme for the past two years. Battling the virus has changed our society and, as a World Health Organization report on Feb. 1 notes, it has also generated an incredible amount of medical waste. For example, the more...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jan 3, 2022 | News
The equivalent of a garbage truck worth of plastic enters the world’s oceans every minute, according to a report published Dec. 1 by The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Worldwide, of the roughly 2 billion metric tons (BMT) of annual waste, 242...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Apr 12, 2021 | News
Major supermarkets in the U.S. are not doing enough to reduce single-use plastics and the resulting waste, according to a Greenpeace report published March 1. The organization analyzed 20 major U.S. supermarkets regarding their initiatives “to reduce their reliance on...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Nov 9, 2020 | News
The U.S. is the world’s leading producer of plastic waste by volume, the largest plastic waste producer per capita and the second-largest exporter of plastic waste, according to a report published in Science Advances on Oct. 28. Globally, there was a 26% increase in...
