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More than 8 million pumpkins are thrown away over Halloween each year. Evgeny Atamanenko/Shutterstock

Five tips for a sustainable Halloween

Halloween is a sustainability nightmare – but it doesn’t have to be.
A new ban prohibits businesses in England from selling some single-use plastic products. Freepik2/Shutterstock

New single-use plastic ban takes effect in England – here’s why its impact may be limited

The new ban will raise awareness about the plastic crisis. But failing to provide viable alternatives may simply displace the problem, instead of addressing it
A worker sorts cardboard at a recycling center in Newark, N.J. Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Decades of public messages about recycling in the US have crowded out more sustainable ways to manage waste

New research shows that Americans may have absorbed public messaging about the importance of recycling too well.
Pam Longobardi amid a giant heap of fishing gear that she and volunteers from the Hawaii Wildlife Fund collected in 2008. David Rothstein

My art uses plastic recovered from beaches around the world to understand how our consumer society is transforming the ocean

Pam Longobardi collects and documents ocean plastic waste and transforms it into public art and photography. Her work makes statements about consumption, globalism and conservation.

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