Tag: Recycling
Plastic pollution is a global problem – here’s how to design...
Sarah J. Morath, Wake Forest University
Plastic pollution is accumulating worldwide, on land and in the oceans. According to...
What is pay-as-you-throw? A waste expert explains
Lily Baum Pollans, Hunter College
Pay-as-you-throw is a policy that charges people for the amount of trash they toss out. It’s also sometimes called variable-rate...
Plastic trash in the ocean is a global problem, and the...
Matthew Savoca, Stanford University; Anna Robuck, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Lauren Kashiwabara, University of the Pacific
Packaging generates a lot of waste – now Maine and Oregon...
Jessica Heiges, University of California, Berkeley and Kate O'Neill, University of California, Berkeley
Most consumers don’t pay much attention...
Using captured CO₂ in everyday products could help fight climate change,...
Lucca Henrion, University of Michigan; Joe Árvai, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Lauren Lutzke, USC Dornsife College of Letters,...
Hundreds of fish species, including many that humans eat, are consuming...
Alexandra McInturf, University of California, Davis and Matthew Savoca, Stanford University
Trillions of barely visible pieces of plastic are...
How to turn plastic waste in your recycle bin into profit
Joshua M. Pearce, Michigan Technological University
People will recycle if they can make money doing so. In places where cash is offered for cans and...
Consumer electronics have changed a lot in 20 years – systems...
Callie Babbitt, Rochester Institute of Technology and Shahana Althaf, Yale University
It’s hard to imagine navigating modern life without a mobile phone in hand. Computers,...
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...
