According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century is climate change. With climate change comes threats of more frequent and intense droughts, storms, heat waves, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and warming oceans, which can directly harm animals, destroy the places they live, and wreak havoc…
Before New York Harbour became home to the largest city in the United States, it was home to one of the largest oyster populations in the world. A century later, however, the oyster population had dwindled to almost zero. The Billion Oyster Project is seeking to restore New York Harbour’s title as the oyster capital of the…
Two thousand twenty-one marks 27 years of celebrating America Recycles Day. Since the very first America Recycles Day in 1994, recycling and composting rates have grown from 28% in 1990 to 32.1% in 2018 (the most recent year of available data). But Americans are also producing more waste than ever before – from 4.74 to…
Kara Napolitano oversees one of the most in-demand field trips in the greater New York City area – a tour of the Sims Municipal Recycling material recovery facility in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Why the popularity? “For one, it’s free,” says Napolitano, the facility’s education and outreach coordinator, with a laugh. In 2019, 8,000 visitors came through the facility’s…
When we drop an empty plastic bottle or yesterday’s newspaper into our curbside recycling bin, few of us think of ourselves as an essential supplier to a global, multibillion-dollar value chain. But the actions we take to sort our recyclables in our kitchens is the first step in the path toward ensuring that our used…