Tag: Plastic
Plastic bag bans can backfire if consumers just use other plastics...
Rebecca Taylor, University of Sydney
Governments are increasingly banning the use of plastic products, such as carryout bags, straws, utensils and microbeads. The goal is...
Why stop at plastic bags and straws? The case for a...
Anastasia Telesetsky, University of Idaho
Single-use plastics are a blessing and a curse. They have fueled a revolution in commercial and consumer convenience and improved...
Trump should wage a war on waste instead of battling the...
Clyde Eiríkur Hull, Rochester Institute of Technology
President Donald Trump is fighting the wrong fight in his ongoing trade war with the rest of the...
It’s too soon to call 3D printing a green technology
Reid Lifset, Yale University; Martin Baumers, University of Nottingham, and Timothy Gutowski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Over the past decade 3D printing has captured the...
From slag to swag: The story of Earl Tupper’s fantastic plastics
Marsha Bryant, University of Florida
When “American Horror Story,” the Museum of Modern Art and “Napoleon Dynamite” pay homage to an invention, you know it’s...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
