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Dear Eartha,  Recently I noticed that some grocery stores offer aluminum water bottles in addition to plastic water bottles. Both are recyclable, does it really matter which one I buy?  Despite many of us owning...

But the problem started in the Global North.

From linear to circular, the waste and recycling industry

Several years ago, Peter Wang Hjemdahl and two of his colleagues visited the Deonar landfill in Mumbai, India. On one side, they saw enormous mountains of waste

A new brand of offsetting allows companies to call themselves "plastic-neutral" while continuing to use plastic themselves. What's it all about?

Pet owners seek sustainable pet food packaging, but packagers find meeting their wishes isn’t easy. Is it best to reuse, compost, mechanically recycle, or maybe in the future, chemically recycle? Well look at all the possibilities.

/PRNewswire/ -- Earth Mama Organics, a brand with a mission to Do No Harm to people or the planet, is now Certified Plastic Neutral. The company has partnered...

/PRNewswire/ -- Earth Mama Organics, a brand with a mission to Do No Harm to people or the planet, is now Certified Plastic Neutral. The company has partnered...

Plastic neutrality is achieved when an individual or organization’s plastic footprint is measured and balanced by the removal and recovery of plastic waste from nature, and complemented by reductions in plastic use.

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