People don’t usually plan to hold onto their old devices, but that’s what many end up doing. Better information about recycling and reselling options could change that.
World leaders are returning home from the annual G7 summit, having failed to address issues such as income inequality, climate change and territorial conflict, while entertaining the wealthy executives of the artificial intelligence and fossil fuel industries. Oxfam International Executive Director Amitabh Behar calls the G7 “a club of the super-rich super-elites” and slams the summit’s focus on business, and business as usual, at the expense of humanitarian efforts and improving the lives of “the common people.”
On one of the first proper spring days in New York City, I found myself wandering through Broad Channel, a quiet, strikingly conservative neighborhood in Queens, to watch Park Rangers drill bits of plastic into the sides of mating Horseshoe Crabs.
There are opportunities at every level of the US energy market to save consumers money – if governments, companies, communities and individuals choose to act.