GroundUp

 Microsoft has a new, slightly more sustainable Xbox controller. Arriving as an Earth Day promotion, the Xbox Remix Special Edition wireless controller uses recycled materials from old gamepads, auto headlight covers and reclaimed CDs (among other sources) to give each accessory a unique look – but no special functionality. I’m totally OK with that. Microsoft describes the combination of recycled resins with regrind as creating “custom, earth-tone colors with subtle variations, swirling, markings, and texturing – giving…

Of course, what will really excite meat producers is the potential to produce more chicken nuggets for every bird slaughtered. Whether that’ll make economic sense is another question. “Nothing goes to waste in these animal protein industries. Everything has a home,” says Jayson Lusk, an agricultural economist at Purdue University. In the EU, chicken bone is often exported for use in pet food or feed for livestock. In August 2021, the EU relaxed rules that previously banned the use of chicken by-products in animal feed, so…