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Public Health Environment Consumer Products

Disposable Vape Pens, The Next E-Waste Nightmare

April 5, 2023April 5, 2023 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 300mah battery, battery recycling, breeze, breeze pen, cobalt, delta-10 THC, delta-9 THC, diacetyl, disposal, Environmental contamination, li-ion, lithium, lithium recycling, lithium-ion, lithium-ion battery, littering, mining, municipal waste stream, nickel, nicotine vape, popcorn lung, propylene glycol, rare earth metals, recycling, thc, tocopheryl acetate, toxicity, vape, vape juice, vape pen, vegetable glycerin, waste stream

Once upon a time, you bought weed in a back alley and would smoke cigarettes only to carry the stench with you for days. These days, pot is legally sold in what looks like the Apple Stores, and tobacco comes in a quick-dissipating haze that tastes like popsicles and fits in your pocket as a disposable vape pen. What could go wrong, right? Well, a couple of things, it turns out.

Policy Sustainability

Is It Time For A National Trash Presort Policy?

April 8, 2021April 8, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments composting, garbage, garbage collection, landfill gas, landfill gas capture, landfills, methane, municipal composting, municipal recycling, municipal solid waste, municipal waste, presort garbage, presorting trash, recycling, recycling rate, recycling rates, solid waste, solid waste recycling, sorting trash, trash, trash collection, trash disposal, trash presort

Is municipal solid waste a question of infrastructure? Probably. Is trash presort an option to make it work better? Also probably.

Sustainability Manufacturing

Port Angeles CRTC: Giving New Flight to Aircraft Scrap

March 29, 2021March 29, 2021 Vishva Nalamalapu 0 Comments advanced manufacturing and composite technology, aerospace, aircraft manufacturing, aircraft recycling, boeing, boeing 777, boeing 787, building materials, carbon dioxide, clad, cladding, CLT, composites, composites recycling technology center, CRTC, CRTC port angeles, energy efficiency, energy-efficient, green building, green building materials, manufacturing, nicole wright, olympic mountains, olympic peninsula, peninsula college, pennies for quarters, pickleball, pickleball paddle, port angeles washington, recycled building materials, recycling, repurposing, sequim, sustainable building, sustainable construction, tiny home, tiny house, veterans housing, vishva nalamalapu, washington state, waste

In Port Angeles, Washington, Vishva Nalamalapu hangs out at the Composite Recycling Technology Center, or CRTC, with Michigan transplant Nicole Wright, to learn about all of the cool stuff they are manufacturing from aerospace industry scrap.

Business & Economics Culture & Language Environment

100 Corporations Produce 71% of Carbon Emissions. But Who Buys Their Products?

March 9, 2021March 9, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments air quality, air quality index, ambassador bridge, aqi, car inspections, car ownership, carbon, carbon footprint, cars, climate change, conservation, consumption, energy waste reduction, exxonmobil, garbage, incinerator, mobility justice, mobility poverty, MPSC, municipal solid waste, pollution, recycling, recycling bin, refuse, Regulation, resources, saudi aramco, single-stream recycling, solid waste, transportation justice, transportation poverty, trash, vehicles, waste

LIVING IN SOUTHWEST DETROIT, A STONE’S THROW FROM THE AMBASSADOR BRIDGE, I AM ACCUSTOMED to having to wipe off the