Source: saveonenergy.com Published: August 9, 2016 The average American tosses 4.4 pounds of trash every single day. It may not seem all that astonishing on the surface, but with 323.7 million people living in the United States, that is roughly 728,000 tons of daily...
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: July 21, 2016 Franck DUNOUAU via Getty Images By Carla Herreria Russo Between the multicolored bins, complex facilities and sticky bottles, recycling can seem very intimidating. But it only takes the tiniest bit of extra effort...
Source: theguardian.com Published: June 30, 2016 Jambulingam Street, Chennai, India. Photograph: Vittal Srinivas In India, roads made from shredded plastic are proving a popular solution to tackling waste and extreme weather Sribala Subramanian Jambulingam Street,...
Source: sierraclub.org Published: May 26, 2016 Photo by iStockPhoto/fergregory By Meiling Bedard Scientists estimate that more than 5 million pieces of plastic are floating in the world’s oceans. From flip-flops to microbeads, this pollution poses a serious risk for...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: May 13, 2016 Fed up with the job market not serving the community and the amount of waste we use, a Kansas City resident decides to put on a cape, and take the streets as a super hero to address something important. Recycling! With...
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: May 11, 2016 Reuters Staff / Reuters The soccer pitch may no longer be the greenest thing in this photo. “I never knew how excited I could get about waste,” says Nike’s sustainability chief. By Alexander C. Kaufman Nike is...
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: March 21, 2016 This is an important step for the tech giant. By Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) – Apple Inc on Monday unveiled a robotic system called Liam to take apart junked iPhones and recover valuable materials that can be...
Source: fastcoexist.com Published: March 3, 2016 Up to 1.5 million pounds of strings end up buried in a landfill every year. Photos: Flickr user Alan Levine Instrument strings seem like a small part of the waste stream. But even small things add up quickly. By Charlie...
Source: aljazeera.com Published: February 28, 2016 In the landfill near his home, one Bolivian boy collected e-waste to build a robot inspired by the Pixar character Wall-E [Valentino Bellini/Al Jazeera] In the rural town of Patacamaya, Esteban Quispe makes robots...
