Discarded Plastic Bottles Put to New Use in Schools
A project to build a school using empty plastic bottles brought together a community in Guatemala. The idea now is spreading to other sites.
Building a Plastic Bottle School
When former Peace Corps volunteer Laura Kutner was asked to help find funding to finish constructing two classrooms in the elementary school where she worked in Guatemala, she decided to use -- or rather reuse -- a common piece of…
Taking a Lesson from Cash for Clunkers, Why Don’t We Recycle Old Cars?
Question: With the success of the cash for clunkers program coupled with all of the auto plants that had to close this past year, why doesn’t the auto industry, the government, or some young entrepreneur reopen some of these plants…
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World’s Oceans Face Problem of Plastic Pollution
Some researchers believe that more than 5 million square miles of the Pacific Ocean has become a soup of plastic confetti. Now, scientists are trying to quantify the problem and are studying how plastic affects fish, marine mammals and birds.
