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Fighting Plastic Waste With Edible Pods, Algae and Banana Leaves

Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss algae, cardboard, gyre, PLA, plastic, plastic waste, recyclable, recycling, seaweed, waste

Researchers are hard at work looking for biodegradable alternatives to plastic to wrap up and store our food and drinks without insulting the environment.

Credit: Jacob Gube, FlickrCC

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Drowning in Boxes: Is More Cardboard Recycling Really the Answer?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Amazon, box, boxes, brick, brick-and-mortar, cardboard, China, Christmas, Deloitte, holiday, mall, mortar, recycling, retail, shop, shopping, store, Target, Xmas

The cardboard you recycle likely makes a 12,000-mile, fossil-fuel-spewing loop at sea (to China and back) in its journey of rebirth…

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