Alabama Coastal Cleanup, the state’s largest one-day volunteer event, returns for its 30th year on Saturday, Sept. 16. Residents, visitors, individuals and organizations are invited to “get the trash out of the splash” by picking up trash littering Alabama coasts and waterways from 8 a.m. to noon. Volunteers are needed on foot and on water.

With supermarkets and grocery stores packed with cheap food brands and prepackaged goods, it’s no wonder we overconsume and overdispose. But buying too much too often and paying less attention to the ways we can save means that as much as 40 percent of the food we produce in the United States continues to get thrown away.

Alabama Coastal Cleanup, the state’s largest one-day volunteer event, returns for its 30th year on Saturday, September 16. Residents, visitors, individuals and organizations are invited to “get the trash out of the splash” by picking up trash littering Alabama coasts and waterways from 8 a.m. to noon. Volunteers are needed on foot and on water.

Scott Cassel, CEO and founder of the Product Stewardship Institute, highlights the current trends in product stewardship, including recycling, extended producer responsibility and the circular economy.

Thirty-seven erasers, 15 barely used notebooks, 105 pencils, 4 holey backpacks and 2 smelly lunch boxes. That is our inventory of perfectly usable school supplies. And I only have one child! Even so, I just received the dreaded list of required school supplies from my daughter’s new teacher, and the pressure is on.

Legendary – that single word is the appropriate way to describe Jersey Fresh Jam 2017 which Charm City Streets attended this past weekend. Jersey Fresh Jam is New Jersey’s premiere Hip Hop Festival. Each year artists, DJs, graff writers and musicians from up and down the Mid-Atlantic come together in Trenton to celebrate Hip Hop culture. The tunes are unforgettable, and the artwork is stupendous.

As a local collector of “Little Bites” flexible plastic snack pouches, Worcester Elementary School’s Environmental Club has helped Entenmann’s and recycling company TerraCycle reach a milestone of over 2.5 million pieces of waste diverted from landfill. Through the program, collectors can earn points that are redeemable for cash donations to a nonprofit or school of their choice. Nationwide, charitable donations have just passed $40,000.

Recycling has become a major part of our daily lives with more and more companies making it a staple among their team members, even down to how they do business. We’ve seen here in Southern Nevada some of the ways places are going green like switching to light-emitting diode lights and powering offices with renewable energy. As creative as businesses and individuals can get to be more sustainable, the one aspect of sustainability that has always rang true is good-old recycling.

Hey volunteers! This is a quick note to thank you for all of the cigarette butts you’ve collected during our beach cleanups and habitat restoration events and turned in. We just mailed another 3000+ to TerraCycle. Since Helen started collecting them in 2013/2014 we’ve recycled 323,712 filters to date keeping them from the landfill! Isn’t this astonishing?

Zultner may have one of the toughest jobs in the plastics industry. TerraCycle Inc. in Trenton, N.J., specializes in recycling products that no one else can recycle: things like chewing gum and drink pouches.