I'm a senior editor at Forbes, covering industrial innovation and climate-oriented technology. I also co-author the Current Climate newsletter and edit the Next Billion-Dollar Startups list. Before rejoining Forbes in 2016, I was a senior writer or staff writer at BusinessWeek, Money and the New York Daily News.
In the race to slow climate chaos from carbon dioxide, there’s no bigger target than shifting hundreds of millions of U.S. vehicles from fossil fuels to electric power. That’s because cars and trucks spew nearly 30% of greenhouse gas emissions.
It’s what I was expecting to find. Plastic is hard to recycle, and plastic film, like what’s used for bubble wrap, is nearly impossible to recycle. It is not a very effective system.We saw how many Amazon shipments people were getting, and that meant you were left with a pile of packaging, plastic mailers and bags and air pillows. We were curious what happens to all of it. The cardboard boxes you can recycle curbside.
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