The EcoPlum Daily

Deep learning has a terrible carbon footprint.

Plastic straws, stirrers and q-tips will be banned in England starting in April of 2020, the government confirmed Wednesday.

Beverage giants are developing high-tech water refill stations that invite customers to refill their own bottles for free, with the option to purchase flavors and carbonation for small fees.

From now, house style guide recommends terms such as ‘climate crisis’ and ‘global heating’

But there's a strange loophole for biodegradable plastics, which we know aren't much better.

There are now more than 2 million solar installations in the United States, a milestone reached just three years after hitting the 1 million mark, an industry trade group said on Thursday.

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Adidas is looking to make sustainability a more “holistic” part of the brand’s overall strategy, instead of just being sequestered to a few lines.

A simple tweak to YouTube could reduce its annual carbon footprint by an amount equivalent to the footprint of 30,000 UK homes

Food containers made of Styrofoam, also known as polystyrene, will be officially banned from businesses in Maine after governor Janet Mills signed a bill into law Tuesday.

They'll make you rethink the things you throw away.

To fight climate change, the city is forcing the buildings, like the Empire State Building and Trump Tower, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The French government announced an end to the destruction of unsold non-food stock earlier this week, calling time on a practice that is common in the luxury retail sector. More than $730 million of returns and unsold inventory are routinely destroyed in an effort to maintain label exclusivity.

To avoid the worst risks of climate change, we need climate legislation that can harness the power of the whole economy to drive down emissions.

A new Stanford study finds that removing methane from the atmosphere, and converting it into carbon dioxide, could combat global warming.

East Timor generates about 70 tonnes of plastic waste each day, most of which is collected from beaches and urban areas, then burned in the open

Perovskite solar panels can be produced in rolls by coating liquid on to plastic, like printing newspapers

But the United States has opted out.

An engineer explains why recycling is busted in America.

Plastics aren’t recycled nearly as much as we’d like them to be, but a team from Berkeley Lab has developed a method to hopefully make that process easier. In a recently published study, these researches describe a new type of plastic that can be broken down at the molecular level to create new plastic without any deterioration in quality. The goal is to improve the recycling process so that fewer plastics end up in landfills or oceans.

The proposal would transform air-conditioning units into machines that capture carbon dioxide and transform it into fuel.The context: Air-conditioning units are energy intensive, causing emissions that contribute to rising global temperatures (which then, ironically, cause more people to buy AC units).

Food-safety gloves are upcycled into trash bags to reduce waste

The push comes as Waikiki Beach faces frequent flooding thanks to climate change's rising sea levels.