Park University hosted the 2018 MiddleMoot in Kansas City, the first in the metro area and the second after a moot in Waterloo, Iowa, in 2017. I was fortunate enough to be allowed, and even...

MillerCoors in Golden used to produce 135 tons of trash per month. Now they send none to the landfill. None. That’s almost enough to make me drink Coors. MillerCoors Brewery Now Recycles All...

The Problem: How Plastic Becomes Pollution Plastic collects in lakes, rivers, and the ocean. It breaks down in sunlight (photo-degrades) into small pieces. Birds such as albatrosses, turtles, and...

Just spent 15 minutes or so dealing with recycling. No, it doesn’t take me that long to find the recycling bin. I had to rinse out a small plastic bag so that I could recycle it; plastic bags...

I know plastic travels that far because the trash exhibit I saw in 2004 at the Centro Ecologico Sian Ka’an (CESIAK) includes some plastic from Poland that had washed up on the beach in Mexico...

I often ask myself why Americans don’t recycle more. I’ve lived in my current home for 14 years and the same percentage of my neighbors recycle: about 30%, or 2 of the 6 families on the...