Approximately 99% of individuals believe that a person who gives flowers is thoughtful, but are they really thinking about where their beautiful gifts are coming from? A new book called Foraged Flora aims to explain exactly why we should be looking at flowers the same way we look at produce. Author Louesa Roebuck tells her…
Day: October 25, 2016
U.S. PET Plastic Recycling Rate Drops Over Past Year
According to the “Report on Postconsumer PET Container Recycling Activity in 2015,” the U.S. achieved a recycling rate of 30.1% for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles last year. This percentage, however, shows a slight downward trend in PET bottle collection volumes over the past year, since the PET recycling rate in 2014 was 31%. If 60%…