OPINION: Here's why you should get rid of your plastic water bottles

OPINION: Here's why you should get rid of your plastic water bottles

April 22nd, 2019 - WASHINGTON -- I can't stand plastic water bottles. They feel cheap and flimsy. I hate the sound they make when you're almost done and then they practically collapse in your hand. I don't even like the tiny opening you can drink from, but what I dislike the most is that they are polluting the oceans. Read More

Consumer convenience is essential to saving Iowa's bottle bill

Consumer convenience is essential to saving Iowa's bottle bill

April 22nd, 2019 - Bottle deposit laws, or “bottle bills,” are the most effective system ever devised to increase recycling and combat litter. Worldwide, 57 states, provinces and countries have enacted their own bottle bills, providing recycling opportunities to more than 600 million people. In fact, 10 new programs have been introduced in the last year alone. Read More

More than a million plastic bags are used every minute

More than a million plastic bags are used every minute

April 9th, 2019 - The proliferation of plastic products in the last 70 years or so has been extraordinary. It seems that we cannot live without them. Over the last ten years we have produced more plastic than during the whole of the last century. Read More

An Environmental Historian's Requiem for Recycling | Bart Elmore | TEDxOhioStateUniversity (VIDEO)

An Environmental Historian's Requiem for Recycling | Bart Elmore | TEDxOhioStateUniversity (VIDEO)

April 9th, 2019 - Bartow Elmore speaks about how the solution to the current plastic waste problem lies in the history of one of the biggest enterprises in the world: the Coca-Cola industry. Bart Elmore studies the past in order to understand how we can live more sustainably on this planet. Read More

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This counter represents the number of beverage cans and bottles that have been landfilled, littered and incinerated in the US so far this year
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