With landfills, recycling and composting the alternatives, garbage incineration that generates electricity has become increasingly popular.…
Why Doing Good is Not Always Easy
By recognizing the tradeoffs of recycling, preserving endangered species and improving world health, doing good could become more productive.…
Why Recycling is More Expensive
Because recycling is a broad social norm, we do not differentiate between good and bad recycling and, as a result, have a higher cost.…
The Scrap Business is Underrated
Our Wednesday Environment Focus By Madeleine Vance, guest blogger and student at Kent Place School The “scrap” business is a lot more than just scrap. Once you drop your empty soda can int…
Chicken Productivity
Sometimes byproducts can become surprisingly useful. Scraps: Believing that their chickens could be tastier, NYC’s priciest restaurants are sending their table scraps to the farmers who raise th…
More Recyling Matters
Aluminum recycling is in the news because of a break-up. Together, Alcoa and Novelis (owned by HindalCo, an Indian firm) had been collecting and recycling cans–40 billion last year. But no more.…
Recycling Matters
Coca-Cola has a recycling problem. Last year, it had hoped to process 100 million pounds of recycled PET (bottle grade) plastic in its Spartanburg, S.C. plant and is not even close. Here is why: Less …
Pay-As-You-Throw
Hearing Beethoven’s Fur Elise, a Taiwan resident knows the garbage truck is near. As described by a Washington Post writer, entire neighborhoods assemble with their garbage as the truck approach…
Recycling Garbage
A recent article in SF Gate focused on Berkeley’s garbage problems. Because of Berkeley’s commitment to recycling, the revenue it receives from garbage collection has dropped precitously. …