Environmental Journalism: The Plague of Plastics

Americans learning how to recycle? Sounds like a miracle. Unfortunately, America is one of the countries that recycles the least. Why do you think this is? Well, simply because Americans are idle. The reality of recycling is there is no law saying that you must recycle. If the problem isn’t directly affecting us, it must be okay. Even if people do decide to recycle, they’re most likely doing ...

Ever since the first Earth Day in 1970, there has been a worldwide movement in support of taking better care of the environment. The idea of recycling, the action or process of converting waste into reusable material, although not a new idea, became extremely popular during this time and has continued to be the most common method of preserving the environment. However, many people fail to see the importance...

When the time to get new running shoes/sneakers comes along, the automatic thing we do is throw away our old ones. Many people think this is the right thing to do considering they are sneakers; however, you can actually send your old sneakers to be recycled. Nike’s Reuse-A-Shoe program takes in old, worn out sneakers and recycles them into new ones which they donate. “The program has collected 28...

Over the past few decades there has been an overwhelming emergence of new lifestyles based off of vegetarian and veganism. A vegetarian diet differs from a vegan; vegans don’t consume any animal products but vegetarians only refrain from animal meat. One alternative diet lifestyle is a pescartarian, this diet strays away from most meats but uses fish and seafood as their main source of pr...

Imagine walking in your neighborhood finding plastic bags, bottles, and bottle caps trailing down your street. Not that hard to imagine, is it? Considering that Americans used about 50 billion plastic water bottles in just last year, it’s almost the usual that you find a plastic bottle on the street. A small piece of plastic on the ground, so what? Well, it may seem un-alarming, but this waste ...

Since the late 1980s to the early 90s, the United States, along with various other countries have been shipping boatloads of plastic recyclables to China but they’ve had enough of it. About a year ago, in January of 2018, China placed an import ban stating that they will not be having any recycled products sold or traded to them anymore. The Chinese decided to first take in all these waste products...