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This experience taught me something beyond just saving money. By choosing to repair instead of replace, I made a more sustainable choice that helped reduce electronic waste.

With autumn in full swing and Halloween behind us, it’s the perfect time to give your pumpkins a second life through pumpkin composting! Each year, Americans toss more than a billion pounds of pumpkins into the trash, but composting them keeps organic waste out of landfills and incinerators while creating nutrient-rich soil for our communities. Howard County, MD, makes it easy to take part through the Harvest Heap program: Drop off pumpkins at Alpha Ridge Landfill or Robinson Nature Center. Howard County residents participating in the Feed the Green Bin food scrap collection program can set

Excitingly, on May 16, 2017, Milpitas City Council in California held a public hearing and adopted the first reading of an Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) foodware ordinance necessary to restrict the provision of EPS foam food service ware and protect public health, safety, and welfare. Both the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and The California Restaurant Association (CRA) submitted letters of opposition to Milpitas Ordinance 293. During a preliminary public hearing on May 2, 2017, a representative of the CRA opposed the ordinance on the grounds that a ban would harm the plastics industry by