Two years after California launched an effort to keep organic waste out of landfills, the state is so far behind on getting food recycling programs up and running that it’s widely accepted next year’s ambitious waste-reduction targets won’t be met. Over time, food scraps and other organic materials like yard waste emit methane, a gas…
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News New Mexico Gov. Grisham faces opposition over wastewater recycling plan
Environmental activists have opposed Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s initiative in New Mexico aimed at financing the treatment and recycling of oil-industry wastewater. Critics say that the plan relies on unproven technologies and may lead to more water-intensive fracking for oil and natural gas. Grisham seeks legislative and regulatory changes to allow the state to develop…
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News Opinion | The Complicated Truth About Recycling
One of the most fundamental problems with recycling is that we don’t really know how much of it actually happens because of an opaque global system that too often relies on measuring the material that arrives at the front door of the facility rather than what comes out. What we do know is that with…
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