By Sydney Abramovich ’21 According to the EPA, as of 2017, over 32% of the nation’s municipal solid waste, or MSW, is actually composed of cardboard, paper, and plastics. Before the COVID-19 pandemic shook the world, many campuses, businesses, and lawmakers were working to reduce the amount of single-use plastics utilized by consumers. Since the […]
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By Sydney Abramovich ’21 If you’ve ever been to Marsh Island or visited the area surrounding Orono, the Old Town Mill is pretty hard to miss. Located just down the road from the University of Maine, the mill is actually older than the school itself. Opened as a sawmill in 1860, this site along the […]
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By Julia Iannuzzi ’21 Food waste is a dynamic and complex issue. The issue of food waste ranges from personal to industrial; therefore, there are many contributing factors, such as purchasing preferences, retail standards, excess production, cost, convenience, and more. According to the EPA, food waste is defined as “food such as plate waste (i.e., […]
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By Jojo Picone ’23 When drilling below the surface of a glacier, the ice core can reveal years of change preserved in time. While 1970, the year of the first Earth Day, was a watershed moment for environmental policy in the United States, a history of human-related environmental damage goes back further, deeper in the […]
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By Alyssa Bennett (GR ’20) as told by François Amar On April 22, 1970, the environmental movement in the United States coalesced around the first Earth Day with demonstrations and teach-ins all over the country. Perhaps nowhere was the fervor more apparent than in Philadelphia where the action expanded to a full Earth Week, culminating […]
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By Victoria Currie ’20 This year marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. A day created to stop for a moment and care for the little blue and green planet we call home. Earth Day was the brainchild of Gaylord Nelson, a Senator from Wisconsin who always had a special place in his heart for […]
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