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Water-wise landscaping bill

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This state wants to give homeowners a crucial new tool for dealing with intrusive HOAs: ‘Every U.S. state should do this’

Wasteful side of grocery delivery

Food

Supermarket worker sparks fury with ‘frivolous’ grocery delivery order: ‘I don’t understand what goes through people’s heads’

Clean stained Tupperware containers

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Woman shares incredible before-and-after footage after using ‘magic’ hack to clean stained Tupperware: ‘My friend’s grandma taught me’

Paper-thin solar cells

Tech

Scientists develop mega-thin solar cells that could be shockingly easy to produce: ‘As rapid as printing a newspaper’

Artificial turf

Outdoors

Report links toxic substance to cancer deaths in at least six baseball players: ‘What happened to exercising caution?’

Windex Dissolve product on Target shelves

Business

Target customer shocked by new product found in store’s cleaning aisle: ‘That’s a marketing scam’

Carbonwave seaweed blooms, the Great Atlantic Sargassum Bloom

Tech

This company has found a remarkable solution for dealing with Florida’s gigantic seaweed ‘blob’

Lint rollers

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Cleaning expert shares incredible hack for removing pet hair without a lint roller: ‘It just gathers it into one spot’

Hilos stylish shoes with a 3D printer

Tech

These former Nike execs are taking on the shoe industry with their 3D-printed sneakers: ‘I walked 13 miles in these shoes’

Starbucks pastry case

Food

Starbucks barista reveals troubling repercussions of the chain’s ‘unnecessary’ food display policy: ‘It concerns customers’

Tea bags

Food

A single tea bag can dump nearly 12 billion microplastics into your drink — here’s how to avoid that

Green Couch thrifting

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Bargain hunter finds the couch of their dreams while shopping at a local thrift store: ‘I would build a house around this’