How to Reduce your Plastic Footprint
Plastic pollution is a huge environmental issue affecting our world today. It is becoming harder to avoid plastic packaging, materials, and products in our everyday lives. Plastic consumption has expedited over the past decade, with more than 8 million metric tons of plastic waste ending up in our oceans every year. By the year 2050, […]
How Methane from Landfills Impacts Climate Change
A new study from researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has revealed that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is potentially underestimating methane emissions produced from Municipal solid waste landfills (MSWL), and urban areas in the United States. The report estimates that the true amount of methane concentrations […]
A Guide to Chemical Recycling
Awareness as to the harmful effects of plastic on the environment is ever increasing. Along with this awareness comes initiatives to explore and develop new ways and techniques to process plastic waste to help create new materials for reuse. Traditional recycling methods come with many challenges, typically related to what types of plastic can be […]
How Fast Fashion is Bad for the Environment
Yves Saint Laurent was once quoted as saying, “fashions fade, style is eternal.” Sadly, with the arrival of the fast fashion movement, fashion these days does not have a chance to fade, it is almost immediately replaced with something new, as quickly as it arrives. Coupled with the immediacy of social media, the need to […]