Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Tag: waste

Everything I know about a low-waste lifestyle I learned from my...

Frugality doesn’t just save money – it helps save the environment, too.

If you recycled all the plastic garbage in the world, you...

In other words, if someone could collect and recycle all the unrecycled plastic on earth, this person would be richer than any individual on the planet.

Food waste set to increase by 33 percent within 10 years

1.6 billion tons of food worth around $1.2 trillion are lost or wasted every year and the problem is only getting worse.

Plastic overload: China bans overseas plastic scraps from US and around...

Now there is an overload of America's waste inside storage facilities nationwide.

The environmental Christmas hangover

A treeless, gift-free Christmas, where little or no travel is involved, and money usually spent on gifts is donated to an environmental charity, would be the ideal.

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Sanders pushes ‘Pensions for All’ to confront corporate greed and America’s retirement crisis

With nearly half of older workers having no retirement savings, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduces sweeping legislation to guarantee all Americans the same pension security enjoyed by members of Congress.

House Republicans move to block EPA action on toxic PFAS in farm fertilizers

A provision in the latest GOP spending bill would halt enforcement of an EPA risk assessment warning that sewage sludge fertilizer contaminates farmland with cancer-linked forever chemicals.

Trump turns on MAGA over Epstein files as transparency backlash grows

Trump once capitalized on Epstein conspiracy theories to galvanize his base. Now, facing demands for accountability, he lashes out at the very supporters who helped propel him back into power.

Nuclear reactors stoke the climate they claim to cool

Heatwaves force European reactors offline while solar keeps the lights on.

Vermont installs beaver-saving, flood-preventing device

Beaver deceivers are known to be "humane infrastructure designed to regulate water levels while allowing beavers to remain in place."