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  • Waste Done Right

    - by Ruth Tyson, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network In 2012, Amer­i­cans dis­posed of 251 mil­lion tons of trash, accord­ing to the U.S. Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency (EPA). The Sto­ry of Stuff Project neat­ly lays out the way mate­ri­als move through our econ­o­my from extrac­tion to pro­duc­tion, dis­tri­b­u­tion, con­sump­tion, and dis­pos­al. Most con­sumers don’t think beyond the “con­sump­tion”…

  • One Bin for All?

    - by Melanie Scrug­gs, Texas Cam­paign for the Environment Right now, the City of Hous­ton is expand­ing its two-bin or “sin­gle-stream” recy­cling pro­gram to final­ly cov­er all the near­ly 350,000 homes that it ser­vices. As an avid zero waster, you may be think­ing two things: 1. It is fan­tas­tic that Hous­to­ni­ans final­ly have access to a…