Tag: Recycling
A lot of ‘recycled’ plastic is being burned overseas – and...
Ellen M. Considine, University of Colorado Boulder
Picture a pile of trash the size of Manhattan and taller than...
Global copper demand outstrips supply, threatening electrification and industrial growth
Morgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines and Adam Charles Simon, University of Michigan
Demand for copper is surging because...
Why recycling solar panels is harder than you might think −...
Anurag Srivastava, West Virginia University
It’s hard work soaking up sunlight to generate clean electricity. After about 25 to...
Real or artificial? A forestry scientist explains how to choose the...
Every year, Americans buy somewhere between 35 million and 50 million Christmas trees, and many more pull an artificial tree out of...
Real or artificial? A forestry scientist explains how to choose the...
Curtis VanderSchaaf, Mississippi State University
Every year, Americans buy somewhere between 35 million and 50 million Christmas trees,...
New class of recyclable polymer materials could one day help reduce...
Katherine Harry, Colorado State University and Emma Rettner, Colorado State University
Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic...
Lego’s ESG dilemma: Why an abandoned plan to use recycled plastic...
Tinglong Dai, Johns Hopkins University; Christopher S. Tang, University of California, Los Angeles, and Hau L. Lee, Stanford University
Decades of public messages about recycling in the US have crowded...
Michaela Barnett, University of Virginia; Leidy Klotz, University of Virginia; Patrick I. Hancock, University of Virginia, and Shahzeen Attari, Indiana University
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
