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Diverting textiles from landfills is more difficult and more expensive than doing so for paper and glass. A group of formerly incarcerated workers is paving the way.
The sand Glass Half Full creates from processed bottles is repurposed for flood disaster relief and mitigating coastal erosion, among other things.
A new device will allow the same sheet of paper to be erased and reprinted 10 times, cutting waste and carbon emissions.
We visit an 80,000-square-foot facility in La Vergne, Tennessee, where the cartridges are taken apart and readied for their next life.
Businesses are reviving an old model to reduce single-use plastic in an effort to curb plastic pollution and fight climate change.
The company takes used and discarded symbols of the pandemic and turns them into items such as coat hangers and classroom rulers.
Municipalities around the country have had to delay or reschedule trash pickup days.
Volunteers on the Atlanta Hawks’ Zero Waste Squad help fans put compostable cups and plates and recyclable cans and bottles into the correct bins.
British and American researchers have developed a “super-enzyme” to reduce the cost and improve the efficiency of recycling of plastic waste.
For architect William McDonough, an economy of the future is a “circular economy.”
