CausesMichael Coghlan/Flickr/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Beached syringes and the invention of medical waste The “syringe tides”—waves of used hypodermic needles, washing up on land—terrified beachgoers of the late 1980s. Their disturbing lesson was ignored.
Good News Where will Canada’s electric vehicle batteries go when they die? Electric vehicles are booming in B.C. and that means the province has a unique opportunity to divert some of the world’s most sought-after clean-energy minerals from a potentially hazardous waste stream
Solutions www.outsideonline.com What actually happens when you recycle There are important decisions to make before and after your recyclables leave your hands.
