The Fast Fashion trend is driving huge production of cheap goods with a very short life cycle with the help of online “influencers.” US consumers throw away an average of 81.5 pounds of clothing a year, most of it headed to landfills. What can you do? ...
On March 26th, Santa Fe County passed and ordinance prohibiting the use of single-use plastic and expanded polystyrene products in Santa Fe County ...
You can do something about those unnecessary utensils and condiments in your take out orders. Join Skip the Stuff NM ...
The author visited two Albuquerque manufacturing firms: Submaterial, which makes efforts to reuse or recycle their waste byproducts from their interior architectural products, and Soilutions, which takes organic materials that might otherwise end up in a landfill producing methane and turns them into prime topsoil ...
By Carol P. Chamberland, Central New Mexico Zero Waste
Recently a friend sent me a disturbing chart on the decomposition rates of various types of garbage. I looked further into the matter and found it’s worse than I thought. Way worse.
America is a wasteful country. Daily, we generate four pounds of waste per person. Annually, that’s more than 220 million tons of trash, three times the global average.
We use 1.6 million barrels of oil per year just to produce plastic water bottles that can take up to 1,000 years to decompose. Plastic bags can take up to 500 years.
But how do we know how long it takes to decompose? Plastic hasn’t been around that long, so there’s no firsthand ...
A team of dedicated citizens is seeking your support to introduce a bill in the 2023 legislative session that would regulate single-use plastics ...
The pandemic is having an effect on our efforts to refuse, reduce, reuse and recycle. A proliferation of latex gloves and plastic masks are making their way into our waters. Due to the “temporary” relaxation of restrictions on single-use plastic, such bags and takeout food containers are cropping up in huge numbers ...
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