When offered a 1-in-10,000 chance of winning $1,000 instead of a guaranteed 10 cent refund, people recycled 47% more bottles.

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California regulators last updated landfill pollution standards in 2010. An activist says the latest effort to revisit them is inadequate.

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Plastic manufacturers are pushing to have their products counted as compost. Composters and farmers are trying to stop them.

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A Hawaiʻi County commission calls for a pause in the project until the state establishes rules regulating discharge of micro- ...

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