Here's another piece on one of my personal hobbyhorses--the complete failure of recycling. Plastic producers have known for more than 30 years that recycling is not an economically or technically.
For the latest LGM podcast, we talked to James Morton Turner, Professor of Environmental Studies at Wellesley, about his new book Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a.
I've long stated that recycling is a completely broken system. While a good idea in theory, in fact what happens is that our crap gets sent to China, thrown in.
Recycling is completely, irrevocably broken, like the planet's ecosystems. See Baltimore County, Maryland (which is not the city, but the suburbs): Baltimore County officials revealed this week that the county.
I got a call last week from Kate Bratskeir of Huffington Post to ask me to comment on a new delivery service that is supposedly green friendly. There's this company.
Tonight, I put out my trash and my recycling. What will happen to it tomorrow morning when the workers come pick it up? Almost no one thinks about this. Especially.
One does not want to live around a lead battery recycling facility: In the wake of a growing lead pollution investigation in neighborhoods around the now shuttered Exide Technologies plant.
As I've said before, the recycling business can be pretty nasty. We say something is "recycled," which really means "I think I did something good and now I don't have.
