Businesses doing what they can to reduce, reuse, recycle

A story on Spectrum News about Plastic Free July and what businesses are doing to be more sustainable interviews John Atkinson, assistant professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering.

"One of the biggest impacts is just the visibility of it, it's the fact that people are excited about it, to be doing things that are sustainable, that are bettering the planet, and there's some momentum behind that. We saw it with reusable grocery bags now we're seeing it with straws, what's next, maybe we're going to stop driving so much, maybe we're going to have a push for electric vehicles, maybe we're going to stop eating so much meat and make changes like that, that are potentially more impactful than straws," he said.

Read the story here.

The story appeared on Spectrum stations in San Antonio and Orlando.