Name: A Durham business fights climate change with soap
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Description: Plastic consumption skyrocketing. People go through 122 pounds a year, but barely recycle any. What's the impact? Liz McLaughlin investigates.

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Plastic consumption skyrocketing. People go through 122 pounds a year, but barely recycle any. What's the impact? Liz McLaughlin investigates.

ACCUSING KRAFT HEINZ OF FALSE MISLEADING AND DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING. HUMANS ACROSS THE GLOBE ARE CONSUMING MORE PLASTIC THAN EVER BEFORE. AND AVERAGE OF 122 POUNDS PER PERSON EACH YEAR, ONLY ABOUT 5% OF IT IS BEING RECYCLED. THAT'S ACCORDING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY WRAL'S CLIMATE CHANGE. REPORTER LIZ MCLAUGHLIN BREAKS DOWN NOW WHAT THAT MEANS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE NEW LOW WASTE ALTERNATIVES. >> YOUR AVERAGE BATHROOM IS FULL OF PLASTIC SOAP, SHAMPOO AND OTHER TOILETRIES. THAT OFTEN LIST WATER AS THE FIRST INGREDIENT. THESE ARE BULKY ITEMS BOUGHT OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND REQUIRE ENERGY TO USE AND DISPOSE OF THEM. NOW ONE DURHAM WOMAN IS HOPING TO CHANGE THAT. >> SO WE HAVE LIKE A REALLY GREAT LAUNDRY POWDER. ALYSSA CHERRY IS TRYING TO REPLACE REPLACING WITH REFILLING CANDLES, BRIGHT LIGHT CANDLES. YOU CAN BRING BACK THE CONTAINER BACK AND THEY WILL REUSE IT AS WELL. SHE STARTED HER COMPANY HILLARY 10 YEARS AGO. >> PHIL, OBVIOUSLY REFILL HILLARY. >> OFFERING ALL SORTS OF LOTUS, 0 WASTE HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS. >> WE HAVE ALL OF THE R-PHILS. THIS IS ALL THE DIFFERENT HAND SOAPS AND ALL OF THE SHAMPOO AND CONDITIONER LOTION AND HAND SANITIZER. HER COMPANY MAKES MORE THAN 350 GALLONS OF NATURAL. SO BEACH WEEK OFFERED IN A GLASS BOTTLE THAT CAN BE REFILLED, IN-STORE OR ORDERED IN BULK ONLINE. AND THEN YOU CAN SHIP HAS BACKED THE EMPTY CONTAINER. WE WASHINGTON TIES AND REFILL IT. IT'S A MODEL THAT'S PART OF THE CIRCULAR CLOSED-LOOP ECONOMY TO EXTEND THE LIFE CYCLE OF PRODUCTS AND CUT DOWN ON PLASTIC WASTE. THE FOCUS OF A RECENT PANEL AT UNC FEATURING CHERRY AND CAROLINE TOLOACHE FROM ATLANTIC PACKAGING. SO IF WE'RE GOING TO SOLVE. >> THE CLIMATE PROBLEM, WE REALLY NEED TO LOOK AT THE STUFF THAT WE ARE CONSUMING. A LOT OF THIS IS THE STORY OF STUFF. >> LESS STUFF MEANS LOWER EMISSIONS AND LESS WASTE. THE PAST YEAR. WE HAVE CLOSE TO 300,000 BOTTLES THAT WE PREVENTED FROM GOING IN THE LANDFILL DIVERSION THAT CAN FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE. ONE BATTLE AT A MCLAUGHLIN, WRAL NEWS. IF YOU'RE INTERESTED, IF THAT HE SAID WHILE IT'S A GREAT IDEA, FILLER E PRODUCTS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE WORKSHOPS THAT USE THE WEAVER STREET MARKET AND THE DURHAM CO-OP OTHER LOW WASTE OPTIONS ARE USING SHAMPOO AND SO BARS INSTEAD OF LIQUIDS.

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I'm neurologist, Elizabeth Garra, a mix of sun and clouds out there as you're headed out the door, places where we're seeing some cloud cover lingering should be breaking up by lunchtime, if not before 80 degrees in Raleigh, 81 in Durham and in Fayetteville, those are our highs for this afternoon. So it's going to be a nice day, the coolest day that we'll see this week, we're going to start to see things creeping up a little bit from comfy into tolerable in terms of our muggy meter for today. And then it continues to climb from tolerable to humid all the way up towards tropical by Thursday and Friday, we're going to see a lot more moisture working its way back into the area and a better chance for rain Friday into the holiday weekend. I know uh we've had some cool temperatures over the weekend so you can see North Carolina there in the blue shaded area. That's where temperatures are below normal. And then we get into the yellows and the oranges above normal starting tomorrow really and really amping up for say Thursday and Friday, we check out the Bulls game. It's going to be a really nice evening for a game tomorrow. They kick off their next home stand that lasts all the way through the holiday weekend, 630 game temperatures will be close to 80. Dropping into the mid seventies by around eight o'clock, we'll see partly cloudy skies and humidity again. Should be middle of the road. Our normal high is 81. We do jump to 88 Wednesday and then all the way to 91 we haven't seen a lot of 90 degree temperatures, but we'll be there. Thursday. It is cooler Friday because we'll see more cloud cover and a chance of showers and storms in the afternoon in the evening. And we check out the rest of that Memorial Day Holiday weekend and we have preview down because of course, it's a long time before Sunday and Monday, we're going to have a lot more information coming in right now. It looks like Saturday would be the wettest day. It would be drier on Sunday with a small chance of storms and then some scattered storms on Monday. But if you do have critical outdoor plans over the weekend, make sure you keep checking back as we continue to update the forecast.

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Good evening, Darren Ott here with tonight's drawings for Sunday. May 19th, 2024. Let's get started. As always with Carolina pick three where the first winning number is eight. The second is three and the third is four and our pick three. Fireball number tonight is eight. Joining me for tonight's drawing is our auditor from mcconal Jones L LP. We move along to Carolina pick four. The first pick four, number is one. The second is four. The third is one and the fourth is two. In our pick for fireball number is five. Turning now to the Carolina cash five. If no one wins the top prize tonight, tomorrow's top prize is estimated at $130,000. Good luck. The first cash five number is 11. The second is 12. The 3rd 34. The fourth is five and the fifth and final number tonight is seven over the past 16 years. The lottery has contributed over $10 billion to education. So thanks for your support and thanks for playing the North Carolina Education lottery.

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Good afternoon. I'm Claire Justin and welcome to this afternoon. Choice for Sunday. May 19th, 2024. Let's get started with our car to pick three. Your first number is eight. Second is nine, third is also nine and your pick. The fireball is two. Joining me for this afternoon's drawing is our auditor from mcconnell and Jones L LP. Now let's move on to the Carolina pick for your first pick. Four. Number is four. Second is six. Third is one, fourth is one and your pick four. Fireball is eight. The North Carolina Education lottery contributed over $10 billion to education. Thanks for your support. Get your winning numbers each day here on your exclusive station for the North Carolina Education lottery.

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Johnson tonight, we have another life changing jackpot for you. It's worth an estimated $77.5 million. I get those tickets out. Let's play. That first number is 42. Followed by the number 59. Tonight. We're going to meet, keep on trucking who won $50,000 playing powerball. Now, for the rest of those numbers, we've got 3719, rounding it out with 36. Your powerball number tonight. Good luck. Everyone is 19 and your power play multiplier is two. Let's take a look at those numbers one last time. Remember there are multiple ways to win. We'll see you back here Monday night. Good night, everyone. Favorite jackpot game. This is powerball. Good evening America. I'm.

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>> ACROSS AMERICA WITH MEGA JACKPOTS, IT'S MEGA MILLIONS WOODS UP AMERICA. I'M JOHN CROW. IT IS FRIDAY MAY 17TH AND TONIGHT'S MEGA MILLIONS JACKPOT IS AN ESTIMATED A NEW TIES. 393 MILLION DOLLARS. AND WIN THAT JACKPOT. YOU MUST MATCH THESE 5 WHITE. PLUS THAT GOLD MEGA BALL NOW LETS SEE IF I CAN MAKE YOU A MILLIONAIRE TONIGHT. YOUR FIRST WINNING NUMBER TONIGHT IS 8 AND FOLLOWED BY 60. UP NEXT, WE HAVE 70. YOUR NEXT NUMBER IS 17 IN YOUR FINAL WHITE BALL NUMBER FOR THIS FRIDAY EVENING IS 40 NOW FOR THE MEGA BALL NUMBER. THAT IS 3. AGAIN. TONIGHT'S WINNING NUMBERS ARE 8, 60, 70

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