recycling
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Maine’s New Law Will Finally Make Companies Pay for Recycling
Maine is forcing polluters to clean up their act — by making them pay to recycle their waste. On Tuesday, Gov. Janet Mills a groundbreaking new law that makes the state the first in the country to shift the burden from consumers to producers for the waste they create, in hopes that it will help…
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Why It’s Taking so Long for Lego to Make Bricks From Recycled Plastic
Today, Lego revealed its first brick made from recycled plastic; a prototype that won’t be showing up in official sets for a long time
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How Sand Mining Could Destabilise the World
The world consumes gargantuan quantities of sand for all kinds of things, which along with related materials like gravel and crushed rock, accounts for 85% of all mineral extraction on Earth. A new study details the massive environmental toll it takes — and how we can fix it.
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Experts Are Creating A Cleaner Way To Recover Rare-Earth Metals From Old Phones And Laptops
Rare-earth metals are critical to the high-tech society we live in as an essential component of mobile phones, computers and many other everyday devices. But increasing demand and limited global supply means we must urgently find a way to recover these metals efficiently from discarded products. Rare-earth metals are currently mined or recovered via…