Updated standards make the case for restoration: ‘We have to create uplift’

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/updated-standards-make-the-case-for-restoration-we-have-to-create-uplift/

The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas

How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution https://climateintegrity.org/uploads/media/Fraud-of-Clean-Natural-Gas-2026.pdf

As World Cup pollution mounts, Vermont team turns recycled bottles and old kits into jerseys

A garbage truck’s worth of textiles is landfilled or burned every second. https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/vermont-soccer-jerseys-recycling-eco-friendly-apparel/

Traffic, transit, trash: Seattle shows what it can do during the World Cup

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/07/06/seattle-shows-what-it-can-do-furing-the-world-cup/

Reuse gets another shot as regulators take aim at packaging waste

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/reuse-gets-another-shot-regulators-take-aim-packaging-waste–ecmii-2026-07-14/

Takeout Boxes Are Filling Landfills. This Town Has A Plan To Phase Them Out

As Hawaiʻi island prepares to enact a ban on single-use plastic serviceware, a coalition in Hilo is rolling out the nation’s first comprehensive city-wide reuse program with over $3 million in seed funding. https://www.civilbeat.org/2026/07/takeout-boxes-are-filling-landfills-this-town-has-a-plan-to-phase-them-out/

National restoration initiatives promote China’s marine ecosystem recovery

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03760-0

Legal logging and soaring saplings: the ‘green islands’ bucking the deforestation trend in central America

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/23/guatemala-small-communities-restorative-forestation-aoe

Prices could rise because of non-recyclable packaging fees

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/prices-could-rise-because-non-194500362.html

Environmentalists call for boycott of Polar Beverages, saying it opposes bottle recycling effort

https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/07/02/massachusetts-polar-recycle-cans-bottles-deposit

Hope for quick plastic market normalization fades as Iran conflict escalates 

Fighting in July squashed the promise of a June ceasefire and reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, along with packaging converters’ hopes for relief from plastic material price spikes. https://www.packagingdive.com/news/iran-plastics-effects-polyolefins-ceasefire-strait-hormuz-renormalization-2027/825843/

Food waste recycling in the USA can reduce climate and nutrient pollution impacts yet risks plastic accumulation in soils

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-026-01396-z

Solar hopes rise again at Flying Cloud Landfill

A pilot project offers a possible path for solar atop Eden Prairie’s long-closed landfill https://eplocalnews.org/2026/06/29/solar-hopes-rise-again-at-flying-cloud-landfill/

Anti-illegal dumping group launches crowdsourced map of Philadelphia’s worst sites

Anyone can contribute to the map of sites where tires, construction debris and other junk is dumped illegally.  https://whyy.org/articles/map-philadelphia-illegal-dump-sites/

Biochar is booming. Could waste fuel its future? 

Production capacity for the material, which is created by treating organic matter at high temperatures, nearly doubled in two years. The American Biochar Institute projects even faster growth by 2027. https://www.wastedive.com/news/biochar-industry-growth-report-waste-biosolids-fuel/825285/

Folsom’s Green Bin Recycling Program diverts 51,000 tons of organic waste from landfill

https://folsomtimes.com/folsoms-green-bin-recycling-program-diverts-51000-tons-of-organic-waste-from-landfill/

Soft plastic recycling laws have been delayed – an expert explains why

https://theconversation.com/soft-plastic-recycling-laws-have-been-delayed-an-expert-explains-why-287907

Lithium-ion batteries suspected in recent fires inside garbage trucks in San Jose

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/lithium-ion-batteries-fires-garbage-trucks-san-jose/4115352/

Denver finally ready to expand apartment recycling, cut construction waste 4 years after public mandate 

Voters in 2022 overwhelmingly supported a measure requiring many landlords and business owners to provide access to recycling and composting  https://coloradosun.com/2026/07/16/denver-apartment-recycling-expansion/

Consequences of agricultural deforestation and subsequent afforestation on soil biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-75740-z

Managing the Tire Waste Conundrum with Circular Innovation

Drainage networks made from scrap tires are slowly catching on due to the unique benefits of the material, known as tire-derived aggregate (TDA). The main draw is that TDA has more than twice the airspace of traditional gravel and stone. This enables smaller stormwater systems with higher water retention, and at substantially less cost. https://www.waste360.com/waste-recycling/managing-the-tire-waste-conundrum-with-circular-innovation

What are PFAS? ‘Forever chemicals’ are common and dangerous.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/what-are-pfas/91040171007/

‘Forever chemicals’ could be aging dolphins beyond their years

Exposure to PFAS and metals affects dolphins in ways also concerning for human health https://www.sciencenews.org/article/forever-chemicals-aging-dolphins

Brothers keep Germany’s ancient charcoal-burning tradition alive, in photos

https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/brothers-keep-germany-s-ancient-charcoal-burning-tradition-alive-photos-bedad038a7cb4f5c852ac75beb87f085

‘This Is Obscene’: Shell Profits More Than Double as Iran War Pushes Up Gas Prices 

“We’re running out of words to describe the obscenity of these numbers.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/this-is-obscene-shell-profits-more-than-double-as-iran-war-pushes-up-gas-prices

What’s to blame for Canada’s wildfires?

We can expect future smoky days. And — surprise — it makes no sense to fight every blaze https://www.sciencenews.org/article/what-blame-canada-wildfires-toxic-smoke

‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers

PM has long history of speaking out on realities of global heating but political opponents remain unnmoved https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/02/climate-change-kills-pedro-sanchez-speaks-plain-truth-to-spains-deniers