Recycle/Reuse/Repurpose/Repair


The Sherlock Holmes Method for Raising Your Recycling Savvy

Source: earth911.com Published: October 5, 2018 By Daniel Dern I try to work recycling into my daily routine, but sometimes, the answer to “what do I do with this?” is less than obvious and some sleuthing is required. Like today’s detectives, those of us pursuing...

Scottish Researchers Find Way to Target Gold in E-scrap

Source: recyclinginternational.com Published: October 3, 2018 By Kirstin Linnenkoper Researchers at the University of Edinburgh are developing a new compound to extract gold from used electronics. Around 7% of the world’s gold is inside e-scrap, of which less...

Kenyan Startup Uses the Sun to Turn Human Waste into Cooking Fuel

Source: spectrum.ieee.org Published: November 23, 2016 By Andrew Silver Sanivation’s poop-based fuel briquettes finish cooling and drying on racks. Photo: Sanivation In August 2015—after a couple of years of testing—a company in Kenya began commercially...

20 Facts About Our Plastic-Packed Planet and 9 Ways to Help

Source: ecowatch.com Published: November 15, 2017 Plastic debris collected by NOAA staff and volunteers on the Midway Atoll in the Pacific ocean. Holly Richards / USFWS / Flickr David Leestma Plastic is moldable, durable, and its versatility means it’s everywhere...

Can Airplanes Be Recycled?

Source: earth911.com Published: November 3, 2017 Brian Brassaw As a kid, I remember seeing striking pictures of massive jets, tiny turbo props and other aircraft seemingly abandoned in the arid desert. Across the southwestern United States, there are seven major...

My High School Throws Out a Stupid Amount of Food. What Can I Do?

Source: grist.org Published: October 26, 2017 Grist / Image Source / Getty Images By Eve Andrews The questions that land in the Ask Umbra inbox are, by turns, incredibly vague, hyper-specific, heartily baffling, and genuinely touching. (Send more of them!) But there...

Anthony Bourdain Tackles Food Waste in New Documentary

Source: ecowatch.com Published: October 26, 2017 Food Tank By Eva Perroni A new documentary from chef and television personality Anthony Bourdain, WASTED! The Story of Food Waste explores both the problem of food waste in the U.S. and possible solutions from around...