by Zach Dawes Jr | Jun 30, 2023 | Feature-, News
Plastics that are recycled often contain high levels toxic chemicals that can negatively impact people and the planet, according to a report published by Greenpeace in late May. Describing plastic materials as “inherently incompatible with a circular economy,” the...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Nov 2, 2022 | News
The amount of plastic waste being created is increasing, while the percentage being recycled in the U.S. is declining, according to a Greenpeace report published October 24. Few U.S. facilities can recycle anything other than no. 1 or no. 2 plastics, which is the...
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 Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 4, 2021 | Opinion
I never heard my parents quote the adage, “Waste not, want not,” but they taught it to me by example. Many of my clothes were passed down to my younger brothers. When shirts were worn out, they became rags. We didn’t dump food scraps into a slop bucket for the hogs...
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...
