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Americans are consuming more and more stuff. Now that other countries won’t take our papers and plastics, they’re ending up in the trash. ALANA SEMUELS MAR 5, 2019 Plastic, paper, glass, and cardboard at a Recology facility in San FranciscoROBERT GALBRAITH /... Read More

In its latest environmental impact statement, Tesla announced that it will open its own battery recycling facility. Tesla has been recycling batteries made at the factory using third-party recyclers. Now, as the earliest Model Ses reach 7 years old, and the company... Read More

Traditional Thai desserts wrapped in very environmentally friendly banana leaf packaging. Thailand and Vietnam are two of the five countries that account for 60 percent of the plastic in the world’s oceans, according to a 2015 study. Now, Vice reported Friday that supermarkets in both countries are going... Read More

A Tyson Foods subsidiary is recalling more than 20,000 pounds of beef patties that may have been contaminated with plastics, USA Today reported. “Two consumers reported they found pieces of soft purple plastic in the product,” AdvancePierre said in a statement Wednesday. “Even though these reports involved... Read More

Take a moment and try to remember the last time you looked up at the stars. This comic is a reminder of how spending time in nature helps us reconnect with ourselves, with those around us and with the planet. This month,... Read More

Precht – the architecture studio of Penda co-founder and Chris Precht and his wife Fei – has developed a concept for modular housing where residents would produce their own food in vertical farms. Architects Fei and Chris Precht developed The Farmhouse as a way to reconnect people in cities with agriculture... Read More