If the benefit to our environment isn’t enough to get some people to recycle, Georgia Tech’s Valerie Thomas has come up with the concept of offering a cash incentive enabled by “Smart Trash”. The ...

Over the past few years, an increasing number of ”mainstream” Americans have become interested in improving or at least preserving the condition of our fragile environment. Many people have ...

Lindenau Project: The Waste-Recycling-Ship-Concept for the Maldives. Lindenau WRS Concept: The converted waste recycling ship on the round trip route to collect and process waste. Garbage patches in ...

Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report out Monday that blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as "fiction.

The ever-increasing generation of plastic solid waste has resulted in global plastic pollution both on land and in the oceans. Projections show that plastic waste will double in the next 20 years, ...

The city of Lake Worth has entered into a partnership with Waste Management to institute a new concept in recycling pick-up — a first in Palm Beach County. Last October, a single stream recycling pick ...

Houston Mayor Annise Parker has announced that the city’s “One Bin for All” waste and recycling concept is one of the five winners in the Bloomberg Philanthrop ies’ Mayors Challenge, a competition ...

The downtown Milwaukee ReStore doesn't look like your average consignment shop. Recycling and repurposing materials can not only be a cost- savings in what is – for many people – tight financial times ...

Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report out Monday that blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as “fiction.