Every year, the U.S. food system wastes an equivalent of 42 coal-fired power plants’ worth of greenhouse gas emissions. Much of that loss comes from agricultural waste. Yet instead of being put to productive use, most of this waste still ends up in landfills. Circular agriculture changes that by converting crop residues and processing byproducts into resources, such as sustainable activated carbon used in drinking water treatment, wastewater treatment, and PFAS adsorption and

An estimated 10 to 40 million metric tons of them are released into the environment annually. It is estimated that the number could double by 2040. Exposure is unavoidable. Microplastics have been confirmed in human blood, lung tissue, the placenta, and the brain, and the health consequences linked to that accumulation are becoming harder to ignore. This article breaks down what microplastics are, where they come from, how they enter and move through your body, what the lat