Category: Featured
The SHARE Program
The SHARE (Stop Hunger And Restore Earth) pilot program has been rolled out to all 8 elementary schools with remarkable success! For those who don’t know, the SHARE program is a food recovery program designed by Toward Zero Waste with Wake County Public School System to capture leftovers from cafeteria meals and feed students, rather [...]
Local Small Business Green Waste Company Turns Your Food Waste Into Compost
When I was growing up, I spent a great deal of time at my grandparents' house. They taught me the basics of gardening and caring for our small patch of the world around us, and I have tried to emulate them in my own life. However, they had one practice that I have never [...]
The Right to Repair: Why It Matters and What You Can Do About It
When was the last time you fixed a broken item? Chances are that if it was a relatively new product, especially an electronic device, it wasn’t recently. Why? Because many manufacturers today oppose the Right to Repair. What Is the Right to Repair? The Right to Repair is exactly what it sounds like. It’s [...]
A Youth’s Approach to a Plastic-Free Day
In honor of Plastic Free July, I decided to attempt to go plastic-free for a day. What this looked like for me was attempting to reduce or eliminate single-use plastics, as well as plastics that I would throw away eventually once I was done with a product. I’m a teenager, so my [...]
