When the last paper in Marlow County folded, a retired printer, a school librarian and two hundred neighbours decided to start another. This is how they did it, and what it cost.
After 87 years, a family-run cannery says it cannot afford another one. The town is trying to find a way to keep it open.
A new generation of plants can recover nearly all the metals in a spent battery. The bottleneck is no longer technology; it is collection.
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