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Turning Great Lakes plastic into clothing
A 19-year-old U-M student is founder of the first company to use 100 percent U.S. plastic to produce clothes. His ambition is to shift the fashion industry and help preserve the coast of Lake Michigan.
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From trash talk to legislation
In 1976, three student activists walked across the state, collecting rubbish and publicizing ‘Proposal A.’ They succeeded in passing a radical initiative to recycle aluminum cans and glass bottles, transforming Michigan’s landscape.
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The order of ordure
Novelist Nicholas Delbanco finds an unlikely connection between composition and … compost?