Bags are used by almost everyone and almost every day. As a result, your bag or purse is a product that you probably want to ...

Imagine a world where industrial by-products—discarded wood shavings, metal fragments, and excess paper—are not just waste, ...

Loyola’s Waste Week, hosted by the Office of Sustainability and various student organizations, intended to shift student ...

particularly in the realm of recycling. Despite the rapid adoption of paper solutions, a considerable amount of paper, especially from mixed waste streams, remains unrecycled. Studies have revealed ...

“Taking a plastic bottle and turning it into part of a pair of sneakers that after a year will be buried or burned is not perpetuating a cycle,” said Kevin Budris, deputy director of Just Zero, a ...

People often throw them in with the paper, said Goodman, but those cartons belong in the other stream. Many rechargeable, lithium-ion batteries also end up in the recycling when they should be handled ...

Anna Abalkina is a research fellow at the Institute for East European Studies at the Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

The humble paper check had a good run, but it’s all nearly dead today. Originally developed one thousand years ago in the Middle East, checks were the most widely used non-cash payment method in ...

The US commentator’s pessimistic outlook surveys China, Putin, Trump — and warns that we’re entering a new Weimar phase Far-right demonstrators in Wismar, Germany, last September. The group ...

paper is not in itself a solution to our waste crisis. While it is technically easier to recycle than plastic, paper still has a very poor recycling rate of below 40%. Furthermore, many paper cups are ...

BUT IT’S BEEN WE’VE BEEN DEALING WITH THE SMOKE SINCE THEN. THE FIRE STARTED LAST WEEKEND AT A PAPER RECYCLING COMPANY IN DUNDALK CALLED THE OWL CORPORATION. FIVE DAYS LATER, IT’S STILL BURNING.