
The hidden cost of Amazon Prime Day
Shoppers can score some great deals on Amazon Prime Day, but they come at a cost: tons and tons of single-use plastic packaging waste added to our environment.
Nearly all of America’s trash could be composted and recycled. But we’ve got a lot of work to do to get there.
Most of us put our recyclables out for collection. But it’s going to take more than individual action to deal with our trash problem. Only 24% of our trash actually gets recycled, and only 9% gets composted. We can do better. Together we can share information, resources and push our leaders to build a better recycling and composting system.
Shoppers can score some great deals on Amazon Prime Day, but they come at a cost: tons and tons of single-use plastic packaging waste added to our environment.
A recent investigation uncovered a bombshell for our environment over at Amazon: The company is destroying millions of unused or returned products.
The Fortune 50 retailer Target announced a new goal Tuesday to reduce its use of virgin plastic 20 percent by 2025 across its own brand frequency products.
AUSTIN, Texas -- Environment America Research & Policy Center, U.S. PIRG Education Fund and Student PIRG sent 59,000 petitions and a letter signed by more than 40 state lawmakers Thursday to Whole Foods urging them to put planet over plastic.