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    The Best Junk Removal Services

    The Best Junk Removal Services

    Whether you’re moving, looking to clean out a space, or are simply tired of living amidst clutter, you may decide you’re ready to dump your excess stuff. One of the the most efficient ways to do this is to hire a professional waste removal company. But what can you do to ensure that your unwanted […]

    Top 6 Apps for Secondhand Clothing

    Top 6 Apps for Secondhand Clothing

    We don’t consume clothing the way we did just a few decades ago. Since the rise of fast fashion, the industry produces more than 90 million metric tons of waste each year and consumes nearly 80 trillion metric tons of water. With quick, clever marketing and social media constantly selling the latest trends, it’s hard […]

    Maui Launches Stainless-Steel, Zero-Waste To-Go Container Program

    Maui Launches Stainless-Steel, Zero-Waste To-Go Container Program

    HuiZero, Hawaii’s first zero-waste to-go container program, has just launched at participating restaurants across the island of Maui. The tins are food safe, easy to clean and infinitely reusable, making them ideal for an island chain like Hawaii. HuiZero’s mission is to help eliminate single-use plastic and curb plastic pollution across all the Hawaiian islands, […]

    Scientists Turn Bioplastic Into Fertilizer

    Scientists Turn Bioplastic Into Fertilizer

    Single-use plastics are a major environmental problem, polluting everything from the Mariana Trench to Mount Everest. Because only 14 percent of plastics are actually recycled, many experts and advocates argue that the solution to the problem is to create a circular system whereby plastics are reused instead of discarded. Towards this end, a Tokyo-based research […]

    California Just Passed 5 Mega Laws to Fight the Plastic Crisis

    California Just Passed 5 Mega Laws to Fight the Plastic Crisis

    Earlier this month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed five sustainability bills into law. These are aimed at supporting a circular economy within the state and reducing plastic waste, reported Upstream. Plastics — and how to deal with them once they’ve been used — are an issue of global concern. Too often, consumers and municipalities think […]

    Can We Fix Recycling? Some Companies Are Trying

    Can We Fix Recycling? Some Companies Are Trying

    The recycling industry in America is broken, but some companies are trying to make it better. The U.S. relies on single-stream recycling systems, wherein recyclables of all sorts are placed into the same bin to be sorted and cleaned at recycling facilities. This seemingly simple system actually results in very little being correctly recycled and […]