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quarantine Hawaii hotels are issuing single use keys to prevent guests from venturing out of rooms Mark Frauenfelder

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Gadgets Save the planet one sip at a time with this reusable straw Boing Boing's Shop

china China announces ban of single-use plastic bags and straws Cory Doctorow

zero waste Coffee chain ditching cups in 2020, customers must "rent" or bring their own Rusty Blazenhoff

makers Young woman invents ingenious bioplastic made from fish scales and red algae David Pescovitz

videos Straws are a distraction: how the plastics industry successfully got you to blame yourself for pollution Cory Doctorow

Environment Nepal is banning single-use plastic on and around Mt. Everest David Pescovitz

Gadgets Save big on these cloud storage alternatives to Dropbox and iCloud Boing Boing's Shop

death Woman killed by metal drinking straw Seamus Bellamy

Gadgets A fireplace that burns proprietary logs Cory Doctorow

Environment Plastic bag and other human trash found at the bottom of Earth's deepest ocean trench David Pescovitz

Business Helium shortage deflating Party City's business David Pescovitz

Environment Organic cotton shopping bags have to be used 20,000 times before they're better for the Earth than plastic disposables Cory Doctorow

wonderful creatures Bug bombs useless for killing roaches: study Rob Beschizza

security Dark markets have evolved to use encrypted messengers and dead-drops Cory Doctorow

floss Ted Danson learning to floss Rusty Blazenhoff