Open in Our AppGet the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app.SHAREFITCHBURG, Wis. — Forest Edge Elementary School opened in the 2020/21 school year, and it is the first school building in the state to be carbon neutral.The building is all electric with no consumable fuel on site. business manager Andy Weiland said the building will produce 800 Megawatts (MW) of power of the course of the year and use that much too.The building has 1,700 solar panels on its roof that can capture energy and power the school or send back to the power grid. It also has...…Open in Our AppGet the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app.SHAREFITCHBURG, Wis. — Forest Edge Elementary School opened in the 2020/21 school year, and it is the first school building in the state to be carbon neutral.The building is all electric with no consumable fuel on site. business manager Andy Weiland said the building will produce 800 Megawatts (MW) of power of the course of the year and use that much too.The building has 1,700 solar panels on its roof that can capture energy and power the school or send back to the power grid. It also has...WW…

Open in Our AppGet the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app.SHAREMADISON, Wis. — A team lead by Wisconsin scientists is working to cut down on massive plastic waste globally, and the efforts are gaining momentum.The U.S. Department of Energy at the University $12 million to lead a Multi-University Center on Chemical Recycling of Waste Plastics (CUWP). One of their first projects tackled a previously unrecyclable type of plastic. If you've been grocery shopping for a while, you may have noticed a shift in how a lot of food is stored.“If you go...…Open in Our AppGet the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app.SHAREMADISON, Wis. — A team lead by Wisconsin scientists is working to cut down on massive plastic waste globally, and the efforts are gaining momentum.The U.S. Department of Energy at the University $12 million to lead a Multi-University Center on Chemical Recycling of Waste Plastics (CUWP). One of their first projects tackled a previously unrecyclable type of plastic. If you've been grocery shopping for a while, you may have noticed a shift in how a lot of food is stored.“If you go...WW…