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For years, milk was marketed as a drink that does a body good. But after decades of declining sales, the American milk industry has turned somewhat sour.At Leevers Locavore grocery store, the coffee bar is seeing more customers choosing options other than traditional cow milk.“We go through about a case of alternative milks a day,” said a barista. “Maybe just a gallon of whole milk or non-fat.”Across this store, more shoppers are loading their carts with alternative dairy choices.Dairy manager Jacob Pomainville says cow milk sales aren’t what they used to be.“It’s definitely evident that regular dairy is declining in popularity,” he said.Instead, more shoppers are stocking up on plant-based dairy products.“This Oatly is selling really well,” Pomainville said. “There’s a high demand for.” National numbers mirror the store’s sales.According to Nielsen, almond milk is now America’s favorite milk substitute.Sales have jumped 250 percent over the past five years. During that same period, the total milk market shrank by more than billion. That economic impact can be felt across the country as two of America’s biggest milk processing plants, Borden Dairy and Dean Foods, recently filed for bankruptcy.“Mostly, the challenges right now we are experiencing – raw milk inflationary prices which puts a little bit of pressure on processors like Borden Dairy,” said Tony Sarsam, Borden Dairy CEO. “We’ve adopted the mantra, ‘glass half full,’” he said. “Consumers are saying they want variety. They’re looking for new ways to consume all products. They want convenience. They want healthy products and they want products that allow them to indulge.”Now, leaders of one of the country’s most well renowned dairy science programs are speaking out. “There, the distinction is those plants were making bottled milk, which is the product that tends to be going down,” said Dan Sumner PhD, an agricultural economist at the University of California Davis.Sumner says while America’s consumption of cow milk is decreasing, the dairy industry overall isn’t in trouble.“That’s right. Milk production is going up,” he said. “Dairying is a tough business but there’s people successful at it and I think the long-term future is really healthy.”A healthy future with more people now eating more cheese – and America exporting other dairy products like protein powder.“The U.S. dairy industry is getting better and better at competing in the world market,” Sumner said. “The industry is always looking for innovations to get more from less to be able to keep the price of milk affordable for people.” 2606

General Mills and Hersey's are sweetening up your morning.Both companies are teaming up to bring you a brand new breakfast cereal. The Hershey's Kisses cereal is already making special appearances in some limited stores, but should be widely available in January.The pieces are shaped like Hershey's Kisses and reportedly turns milk chocolate-y almost immediately.But remember: Health experts say less than 10 percent of daily calories should come from added sugars, and kids under the age of two shouldn't have any sugar at all. 541

Getting from here to there is becoming increasingly more sustainable, in part, by electric cars.“All the cars are getting electrified,” Don Hillebrand, with the Advanced Powertrain Research Facility at Argonne National Labs in Illinois, said. “The minivan and the middle of the road sort of cars and the trucks.”By 2040, more than half of new car sales and a third of all cars on the road across the world are projected to be electric, according to Bloomberg.com.But it raises an important question.“What do you do with these batteries at the end of their life?” Linda Gaines said. Gaines is the chief scientist for Recell Center of Advanced Battery Recycling.“For a long time a lot of us looked at electrification sort of as hype,” Hillebrand explained.Hillebrand works at Argonne National Labs in the energy systems division, focusing on optimizing how energy is used. He sees one big problem in the creation of electric car batteries. “There are not enough fundamental elements that go into batteries for us to make all the batteries we need forever and throw them away when we’re done,” he said.Meaning these elements need to be reused. “The early batteries from 10 years ago are hitting the end of their life,” he said.The global stockpile of these batteries is expected to exceed 3.4 million by 2035, compared to 55,000 in 3018, according to the Institute for Energy Research. Once the battery loses 20 to 30 percent of its capacity, the available driving range gets shorter, so some companies are using them for other purposes.Florida Power and Light is using them for power storage, and Nissan is reusing old Leaf batteries to power Japanese street lights.These companies are repurposing, but researchers think another fix could come in the development stage.“After 10, 15 years, those batteries are going to reach the end of life and we have to do something with them,” Venkat Srinivasan, a battery scientist at Argonne National Labs, said. “We think there are ways in which we can make these batteries last more than 20 years.”And that’s exactly what’s being done inside this facility. The lab he works in is looking into ways to make batteries last longer. But for now, the main focus is on giving them a second life by recycling.“The biggest challenge today in recycling batteries is they’re not economic,” Venkat said.That's where the Recell Battery recycling center and other recycling businesses come into play.“If you can recover the materials in the battery in a usable form,” Linda Gaines explained. “You can actually recover valuable product.” This includes cobalt and other elements. Linda Gaines and Jeff Spangenberger are part of this center. Their goal is to come up with a recycling process that’s profitable.“Some things take more energy and resources to recycle then it did to make them in the first place,” Gaines said. “So, when you’re looking at the whole life cycle of the product, you need to try to figure out what the benefits are and what the costs are to recycle.”To understand size, one pouch cell in an electric car battery is about the size of a tablet. In the generation 1 Chevy Volt there are 288 pouch cells in one battery.Cars have become the biggest user of lithium ion batteries -- even more than consumer electronics, the Institute for Energy Research said.While Recell is looking into ways to make the recycling process more beneficial and profitable, Larry Reaugh with American Manganese, Inc. is doing something similar. “That’s where we come in, we want the battery packs,” Reaugh said. With their process, they are able to recover the elements inside the battery, comparing their operation to a small operating mine.“There’s a lot of money in it, because it’s very valuable material,” he said.As more batteries retire, companies like this will become more important.“There’s a trickle of batteries that are being recycled right now, but there’s gonna be an avalanche of batteries coming in the next 5 to 10 years as cars hit the end of their life,” Hillebrand said. 4027

Family Dollar will close 390 stores this year and make big changes to the stores it is keeping open as the discount chain seeks a turnaround.Family Dollar sells a variety of items for under at rural and urban locations. Dollar Tree bought the company in 2015. But Family Dollar has struggled, and Dollar Tree is under heavy pressure from an activist investor to sell or revitalize the ailing line.Dollar Tree, which sells everything for and caters more to mid-income customers with suburban stores, has a plan for Family Dollar: Close stores, re-brand some locations as Dollar Tree, and renovate others with Dollar Tree merchandise sections."We are confident we are taking the appropriate steps to reposition our Family Dollar brand," Dollar Tree CEO Gary Philbin said in a news release Wednesday.This is a developing story. 846

Fisher-Price has recalled another infant Inclined sleeper amid reports that similar products led to infant deaths.The company announced Thursday it had recalled all its Ultra-Lite Play Yards with inclined sleepers. The recall comes just two months after the company recalled 4.7 million Rock 'n Play sleeper, after the Consumer Product Safety Commission said more than 30 babies died in Rock 'N Plays after they turned over while unrestrained. A subsequent 469

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