reducing waste, Tag

Would it surprise you to know that Americans chuck 300 million pairs of shoes a year? Most of those end up in the landfill where they take decades to disappear, and while some people donate them or send them out for recycling,...

Single use coffee pods are among the most insidious products to ever enter the global supply chain, and now one German city is taking huge strides to get rid of them...

The small Japanese town of Kamikatsu has a mission to become the country’s first zero waste city by the year 2020 and they are well on their way. Residents meticulously separate their recyclables into 34 different bins,...

The average mobile made this year produced 35 kg of carbon emissions in manufacture, equal to 16 weeks of laundry. Sound small? Well 1.9 billion mobiles will be sold in 2015, approximately 60 per second. Their total carbon...

Last year, Scotland took a stand against plastic waste and began charging consumers 5 pence per bag at stores, encouraging shoppers to bring their own reusable bags from home...

Unpack your boots and start planting seeds. There’s a new box in town. It took more than a century for someone to do something different in the shoes industry regarding packaging. One young Portuguese entrepreneur is introducing...

Dutch-Brit designer duo Marjan van Aubel and James Shaw have created a new material that looks like polystyrene foam but is made from timber waste instead...

Re-Nuble has just launched a crowdfunding campaign to finance its mission of greening the planet one community at a time. The DC-based company specializes in recycling organic waste to produce green fertilizer for sustainable...