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fromEarth911
4 days ago

Sustainability In Your Ear: Terracycle Founder Tom Szaky On Building A Service-Centered Circular Economy

For decades, our relationship with waste has been defined by disposability and denial. The disposability of everything from coffee cups and cigarette butts to smartphones, and the denial about where it all goes when we're done with it, means that humans generate over 2 billion tons of waste globally each year, with Americans alone throwing away 290 million tons of waste annually.
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fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

How the 3-arrows 'recycling' symbol turned into a tool for greenwashing

Recycling struggled due to varied plastics, low economic value of lightweight plastics, lack of buyers, and only PET and HDPE recycled significantly.
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