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Plastic food packaging can expose people to chemicals such as bisphenol A (BPA)Shutterstock/Trong Nguyen Hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of heart disease cases worldwide…
I felt it was wrong to put food scraps in the garbage bin until I learned where they go.
Allerton Waste Collection ParkAPS (UK)/Alamy A few years ago, I spent an exciting but interesting day visiting two of Europe’s most advanced waste treatment facilities: a…
This story was originally Featured in Grist and part of the Climate Desk collaboration.In 2023, fast-fashion giant SHEIN was everywhere. Planes crisscrossing the globe delivered parcels…
More than half of uncollected plastic waste is incineratedTim Gainey/Alamy Approximately 1.5 billion people around the world have no access to waste collection services, making how…
If you were standing After the 2020 Cameron Peak wildfire, the water gurgling along the banks of Colorado’s Cache la Poudre River might have looked black.…
If you were standing After the 2020 Cameron Peak wildfire, the water gurgling along the banks of Colorado’s Cache la Poudre River might have looked black.…
Carbon-fluorine bonds in ‘forever chemicals’ make them harder to breakYurcanka Siarhei/Shutterstock “Forever chemicals,” so-called because they are difficult to break down, can also be destroyed using…
Once Pradhanan found a trash mixture that could be fashioned into platforms and would withstand degradation over time, he began discussing it with his Nepali colleagues,…
Once Pradhanan found a trash mixture that could be fashioned into platforms and would withstand degradation over time, he began discussing it with his Nepali colleagues,…