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A good example from the Star Tribune of the problems when good motives clash with poor systems design. Every day at lunchtime in the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District, students diligently separate food waste from other garbage. Leftover pizza goes in one bin, plastic forks and foam plates in another, empty …

San Francisco‘‘s city council has voted to become the first US city to ban plastic bags from large supermarkets to help promote recycling. Reuters reports that under the legislation approved by the city‘‘s Board of Supervisors, large supermarkets and drugstores will not be allowed to offer plastic bags made from …

Neither the Guyana Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) nor the municipalities have a programme in place for recycling plastic waste, and the impediment to finding workable solutions may lie in the lack of financial viability for everything proposed so far. Stabroeknews.com reports that plastic bottles (PET), Styrofoam food boxes and plastic …