Once the new coating dries, the pavement outside an Arts District warehouse turned green technology campus will become a putty gray that reflects …
A Green New Deal Smackdown Omnibus
Wind power technology has also improved greatly, but here, too, no 10-fold gains are left. The physics boundary for a wind turbine, the Betz Limit, is a …
Don’t Throw Your Chip Bags in the Recycling Bin
Chip and other snack bags present a hell of a problem for recycling facilities because of their mixed materials. Judging by the various plastic types it …
Innovation, recycling must go hand in hand
Just around the corner, the initiative sets a goal of 75% “recycling, composting or source reduction of solid waste by 2020” and calls on state agencies, …
Allegheny County Considers Hazardous Waste Recycling In New Waste Management Plan
Pennsylvania has a goal for the entire state to recycle 35 percent of its municipal waste. In 2016, the county reached that goal, recycling just more than …
Man fatally struck by semi at Minneapolis recycling facility
MINNEAPOLIS — Police say a man has been struck and killed by a semi at a Minneapolis recycling facility. Authorities say the man was conducting …
How to recycle properly, efficiently
Standing, staring at the recycling bin. It’s daunting, really. None of us walk away from a recycling bin confident that the item we placed in there is …
Recycling takeaways from Apple’s sustainability report
Apple will open a research lab studying new electronics recycling processes, one of several e-scrap-related announcements the company recently …
Washington set to be the first state to allow the composting of human bodies.
We’ve got a goal of recycling or composting 70 percent of all our city waste by 2022. Seattleites may soon be able to compost more than our food …
Compost event in May will have you thinking ‘Greener’
To get food waste out of landfills and into composting facilities for later use, the City of Culver City recently rolled out an Organics Composting Program …