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Earth Hour spotlights the push for reusable packaging

Earth Hour on March 28 will do more than dim lights for an hour. In bars and cafes, it will bring a routine packaging choice into focus as customers decide whether to bring reusable cups or accept another disposable one. For a country that orders drinks and takeout on repeat,

Butte mine waste repository chosen to store contaminated Superfund soil

Butte mine waste repository chosen to store contaminated Superfund soil

BUTTE, Mont. — A 33-acre site northwest of the Berkeley Pit has been selected to store contaminated soil as part of the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund cleanup efforts in Butte. The Butte Mine Waste Repository received official approval from the EPA and the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)

EU urged to broadly restrict 'forever chemicals'

EU urged to broadly restrict 'forever chemicals'

"Forever chemicals" pose a growing risk to health and the environment and should be broadly banned across the European Union, with some exceptions, EU experts said in findings published on Thursday. Officially called PFAS, the substances are a group of more than 10,000 chemicals used in things

Dirty diapers born again in Japan recycling breakthrough

Dirty diapers born again in Japan recycling breakthrough

Billions of dirty diapers end up buried or burned every year in Japan -- more from seniors than babies -- but a recycling breakthrough has given them a new lease of life, one hot mess at a time. A pilot project, billed as a world first, reuses the main ingredient in nappies

Butte Mine Waste Repository gets formal nod from EPA, DEQ

The Berkeley Pit bit the dust, at least for the foreseeable future, as a place to dump contaminated soils from Superfund sites in the so-called Silver Bow Creek Conservation Area. The Butte Mine Wastes Repository, after being dismissed early on as being too small, ultimately got the nod after

DEQ takes comment on CHS Laurel project to improve refinery's water treatment process

The Montana Department of Environmental Quality is seeking public comment on an air quality permit for CHS’ Laurel petroleum refinery for the construction of four tanks and a new unit. The project is meant to improve the facility’s water treatment process. The development, situated roughly 520 feet from the

How scientists transformed plastic bottles into a Parkinson’s drug

How scientists transformed plastic bottles into a Parkinson’s drug

By Stephen Beech Plastic bottles have been transformed into a drug to treat Parkinson’s disease. The pioneering method, developed by Scottish scientists, utilizes the power of bacteria to turn waste consumer plastic into L-DOPA, a medication for the neurological disorder. It is the first time a natural, biological