In 2009, the company shed weight from its foam hot cup and plastic cold cup which reduced the amount of cup waste winding up in land fills by 4.6 million pounds per annum.
The appearance of more radioactive soil at Hanford illustrates the difficulties the federal government faces in cleaning up nuclear-waste sites, many of them the legacy of Cold War-era research.
We waste hundreds of billions of dollars on foreign aid to governments, through policies first used during the Cold War that now serve only to centralize power and stall bottom-up progress.