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  • Boxed water replaces plastic at Princeton

    Boxed water replaces plastic at Princeton

    Environmentally friendlier packaging is a transitional step as the school looks for a more permanent alternative to landfill-clogging traditional plastic bottles. Princeton University Dining is boxing out environmentally wasteful plastic water bottles with…um, boxes. That’s right, boxed water. Similar to cardboard cartons of milk, the containers come in half-liter and one-liter sizes and are priced…

  • There’s plastic in your tap water, beer, and table salt

    There’s plastic in your tap water, beer, and table salt

    Photo: An albatross that has succumbed to starvation due to overconsumption of plastic particles. Chris Jordan via Ars Electronica on Flickr. Kosuth M, Mason SA, Wattenberg EV (2018) Anthropogenic contamination of tap water, beer, and sea salt. PLoS ONE 13(4): e0194970. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194970 You’ve seen it; plastic bottles discarded on the beach, photos of marine life…

  • Hurricane Florence breaches manure lagoon, coal ash pit in North Carolina

    Hurricane Florence breaches manure lagoon, coal ash pit in North Carolina

    RALEIGH, N.C. — Flooded rivers from Florence’s drenching rains have swamped coal ash dumps and low-lying hog farms, raising pollution concerns as the swollen waterways approach their crests Monday. North Carolina environmental regulators say several open-air manure pits at hog farms have failed, spilling pollution. State officials also were monitoring the ongoing threat from the…

  • A landfill in Vermont, a lake in Quebec and a question: How’s the water?

    A landfill in Vermont, a lake in Quebec and a question: How’s the water?

    Photo: Residents and officials on both sides of the border have expressed concerns about how the leachate percolating from the Coventry Landfill in Newport, Vt., is being treated before it gets discharged into Lake Memphremagog. (Rebecca Martel/CBC) Lake Memphremagog is main water supply for many communities, but toxicity testing stopped in 2009 Plans for the…

  • Plastic Toxins World Epidemic — Plastic Pollution

    Plastic Toxins World Epidemic — Plastic Pollution

    Plastic is everywhere, including in the sea and its fish, in the soil and its plants, in our food and in us. It’s a global epidemic that needs to be dealt with urgently…. Plastic pollution is as critical an issue as climate change. We are forced to deal with plastic pollution with urgency as it…