Contact lens wearers will be able to recycle their lenses for free in a new UK-wide scheme launching this week. Wearers can dispose of their waste at public drop-off points, offered by Boots Opticians and other selected independent stores, or choose to have their old lenses collected. There are 3.7 million soft lens users in […]

HILO, Hawaii  – Big Island Grown says it hopes to open the first medical marijuana dispensary on Hawaii Island this week. The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reports the company aims to open three locations on the Big Island within the next month. The company is one of only two businesses licensed to sell medical marijuana products on the […]

Houston’s petrochemical industry is an economic engine that drives our region’s success. We employ tens of thousands of people in high paying jobs and our products and services are bettering lives around the world. But the global rise in mismanaged plastic waste threatens the many benefits that plastics provide to society, from improved living standards […]

Engineers at the Ocean Cleanup project are working on a fix to stop collected debris leaking back out from the 600m barrier A giant floating barrier launched off the coast of San Francisco as part of a $20m project to cleanup a swirling island of rubbish between California and Hawaii, is failing to collect plastic. The mastermind […]

A scheme to make it easy to obtain drinking water when on the move has been launched in the Isle of Man. Refill Isle of Man encourages shops, cafes, restaurants, tourist attractions and other publicly accessible premises to display an easy to recognise sticker, appear on an app and fill up people’s water bottles with cold […]

Deliver long-term value Finca Cortesin Hotel, Golf & Spa is at the forefront of European golf’s drive to become more eco-sustainable after revealing that it is using up to 30 per cent less water since becoming the first course in Spain to feature a new, environmentally-friendly, variety of Bermuda grass on all its greens. The deluxe […]

A long manufacturing boom has saddled China with millions of tonnes of waste, much of which is buried in sprawling landfill sites or dismantled by hand in polluting backstreet workshops. China plans to launch 100 new large-scale recycling “bases” by the end of next year, part of a campaign to make better use of its […]

Janet Addison is peering into a large, blue recycling bin on the University of Memphis campus. She does not like what she sees. “Okay, right now, everything that’s in here is contaminated,” says Addison, who’s been working as a recycling operator for the university for almost two years. By contaminated she means that along with […]

The battery-electric buses and charging infrastructure will support Hawaii’s ambitious zero-emission and climate action goals BURLINGAME, Calif., Jan. 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Today Proterra, a leading innovator in heavy-duty electric transportation, announced that JTB Hawaii, Inc. (JTB Hawaii), a provider of travel services in the Hawaiian Islands, has agreed to purchase three 40′ Proterra Catalyst® E2 electric buses […]

The state advances a holistic child-development approach that’s not confined to academics. In the current environment of standardized testing and academic rigor to ensure children are on track for high-school graduation, college and beyond, we often forget that success in school and in life is more than a narrow focus on academics and testing to […]