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Artist Interview: Zoë Friend’s Ataxophilia At Boston Sculptors Gallery

Written by DIG STAFF Posted November 14, 2022 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

“I set about making a natural history museum of creatures that might evolve on a trash continent. … Expect to look at plastic forks differently from now on.”

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Art, recycling, sculpture, trash, waste

REGION’S RECYCLING WORKERS MAKE PROGRESS ON LIVING WAGE FRONT

Written by COLE ROSENGREN Posted November 10, 2021 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

It took decades for workers doing this dangerous job to get a living wage. But are their problems finally sorted out?

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Cambridge, Environment, news, recycling, SOMERVILLE

MASS RESIDENTS STRUGGLE TO OPT OUT OF THE DISPOSABLE ECONOMY

Written by KARINE VANN Posted February 26, 2020 Filed Under: FEATURES, LIFESTYLE, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

Living with fewer materials and less waste should, in theory, save consumers money and resources. It should also save municipalities money in the sharply rising costs of recycling and trash disposal. But waste-free options are expensive in personal time and inconvenience, especially when compared to the unparalleled convenience of the disposable economy

Filed Under: FEATURES, LIFESTYLE, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: Cambridge, disposables, Environment, environmental waste, Garbage, Massachusetts, recyclable, recycling, trash, Trash is Tragic, Unpacked Living, waste

CAMBRIDGE, SOMERVILLE RESIDENTS TALK ENVIRONMENT AT MARKEY TOWN HALL

Written by KARINE VANN Posted February 17, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“What we did in this resolution is to lay out what should happen … in every sector of the American economy. Because they can all be transformed with new technologies, with new strategies, new conservation techniques, and in a very brief period of time.”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: AOC, Cambridge, Ed Markey, Environment, Green New Deal, Politics, recycling, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, SOMERVILLE, sustainability, sustainable

RECYCLING FOLLOW-UP: THE ROAD TO ZERO

Written by COLE ROSENGREN Posted July 2, 2019 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Despite a relative win for recycling workers, living wage advocates pledge to keep on fighting

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACE, ACORN, Activism, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cambridge, casella, charlestown, curbside recycling, Dorothy Kelly Gay, Fight For 15, Fighting for a Living Wage, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, Joe Curtatone, KTI Recycling, labor, living wage, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, MassCOSH, mayor curtatone, mayor Marty Walsh, menino, New York, OSHA, recology, recyclable, recycling, Seattle, SOMERVILLE, Stephanie Luce, Teamsters, union, wages, workplace safety, zero waste

WILL BOSTON SET A NEW REGIONAL PRECEDENT AND FINALLY PAY RECYCLING WORKERS A LIVING WAGE?

Written by COLE ROSENGREN Posted April 12, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

For the first time in the city’s history, Boston’s living wage ordinance might finally get applied to low-paid workers sorting the city’s recycling ...

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: ACE, ACORN, Activism, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cambridge, casella, charlestown, curbside recycling, Dorothy Kelly Gay, Fight For 15, Fighting for a Living Wage, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, Joe Curtatone, KTI Recycling, labor, living wage, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, MassCOSH, mayor curtatone, mayor Marty Walsh, menino, New York, OSHA, recology, recyclable, recycling, Seattle, SOMERVILLE, Stephanie Luce, Teamsters, union, wages, workplace safety, zero waste

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: LIVING ON SCRAPS

Written by COLE ROSENGREN Posted July 12, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

Boston is aiming to achieve “zero waste,” which some say can create more living-wage jobs. Is part of this lofty goal rooted in the region’s dirtiest hypocrisy?

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: ACE, ACORN, Activism, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cambridge, casella, charlestown, curbside recycling, Dorothy Kelly Gay, Fight For 15, Fighting for a Living Wage, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, Joe Curtatone, KTI Recycling, labor, living wage, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, MassCOSH, mayor curtatone, mayor Marty Walsh, menino, New York, OSHA, recology, recyclable, recycling, Seattle, SOMERVILLE, Stephanie Luce, Teamsters, union, wages, workplace safety, zero waste

RECYCLED MOTION: BRING YOUR OLD TECH HERE, HELP CANCER PATIENTS

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted November 20, 2014 Filed Under: Shop

If nothing else, it’s a great way to network within the tech community, at an event that includes everybody from engineers to social media mavens, and in the end you help people with cancer simply by cleaning your room and going to a party.

Filed Under: Shop Tagged With: Cancer, charity, Computers, cords, Dig Boston, DigBoston, engineers, keyboards, laptop, look book, M.J. O'Connor's, monitors, networking, nice, PDAs, recycling, Tech in MOtio, technology

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