once the glow fades out — or the celebration or occasion ends — glow sticks become another example of unrecyclable plastic waste.

Lower quit rates, increasing labor supply and falling worker demand could all be to blame for slowing wage growth this year.

The phase-out ban voted by Member States in December 2008 will remove all conventional incandescent bulbs from the shelves by 2012 and save 15 million tons of CO2 annually by 2020, equivalent to the ...