The USEPA has sounded the call to achieve a minimum 50% recycling rate by 2030 with it’s new recycling strategy. That may not sound like much, but it is a big step forward from our rather anemic 25% rate today. A key plus is that the new infrastructure bill actually contains funding to provide $350 […]
It is often true that manufacturers put the carton before the horse…Pun intended… Carton recycling has been touted for a number of years…but as can be seen in the attached Resource Recycling article, when product manufacturers are promising to recycle, it does not always work. The key is of course economics. Cartons are low quality […]
As You Sow has reported a plastic pollution scorecard…and a full report that you can read. What is most surprising is the list of companies that have failing grades. Indeed, if this plastic pollution scorecard represented a test result by a teacher who wanted a bell curve, it would need quite a curve adjustment! Only […]
As reported in Fast Company, the NRDC has completed a study about the environmental impacts of toilet paper. You would be rather amazed that approximately 80% of the toilet paper sold in the U.S. is environmentally harmful. P&G sources all of its paper from virgin forest and helps to destroy Canadian boreal forests…Think of that […]
We all know that fresh air is good for us. Indeed, during the Pandemic, we have become more obsessed about poor air quality. To make things worse, a recent major study published by Harvard University shows that dirty air makes us stupid! Fast Company recently published a short piece on the Harvard Study. I suggest […]