Quarantine Blogs

On behalf of the Ray’cycle Team, I would like to thank all of you for contributing to this project. We are excited to announce that because of the unprecedented participation, we had to raise our goal to a much bigger number. We specifically chose 5000 as our new number symbolically to represent the amount of…

After finishing a crisp disposable plastic water bottle on a hot day, tossing it into the recycling bin, and sending it on its way to the recycling plant, that very bottle proceeds to get clumped in with thousands of other various recyclables before finally arriving at the facility where it will be sorted and processed…

An environmentally conscious consumer forgets her reusable water bottle one day and buys a plastic one from the vending machine. She just bought one of the one million plastic bottles used each minute. In the time it took you to read this sentence about 50,000 plastic bottles were purchased. But our hypothetical tree-hugger is comforted…

Texas. Best known for The Alamo, having summer almost all year around, the barbeque, the slogan “everything is bigger in Texas.”

Since the global pandemic started, our society has been making strides to fight and contain the virus. We have implemented many new societal norms such as social distancing, contactless delivery and increased use of masks, gloves and hand sanitizers. While these are a necessity in order to fight the spread of COVID-19, it is causing…

We at Ray’cycle will be closely monitoring the current COVID-19 situation to ensure our researchers and our participants are safe during this pandemic.

When plastics first started being mass-produced at the turn of the 20th century, they quickly became popular because of their durability, resistance to heat, and their ability to act as an electrical insulator…

Recycling in California has seen a major decrease when the need for environmental consciousness is needed more than ever.

When you shop at online retailers, they carefully pack your product… with an added bonus of…air and plastics!

In this inaugural blog post for the team, I hope to tell a story of how our project came about.