Growing up in a small town, I had big interests in finding ways to repurpose or reuse discarded items to transform them into something interesting and outside of their traditional purpose. I recall ...

Recycling is difficult in some rural parts of Ventura County, so people living in those areas have come up with innovative reuse ideas we can all benefit from knowing. Perhaps the most clever and ...

A video posted last week by Quantum Tech racked up nearly 100,000 views in less than 24 hours on YouTube. What drew so much attention? The “Brilliant Ideas with Plastic Bottles” video, with a tagline ...

Plastic contamination is a terrible issue—the oceans are flooded with plastic waste, which causes it to enter our food chain.

The city of Glenwood Springs recycling program was started about 15 years ago at the request of the citizens of Glenwood Springs and passed by a vote of the City Council at that time. While we can ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. _ China's decision to stop accepting much of America's recycling materials will result in higher disposal fees, at least in the short term, but it also presents an opportunity to ...

Recycling clothes is hard, thanks to mixed materials used to make them and the poor quality of recycled cotton. That’s why fast fashion retailer H&M is now offering an annual $1 million prize for ...

Municipal solid waste tossed out by Americans totaled more than 2.7 million tons in 2008, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. That equates to 1.6 percent of the entire amount of MSW that ...

NEW ORLEANS - In the rush to rebuild, this hurricane-smashed city is dumping its debris into the swamps by the truckload — and throwing away an opportunity to turn America's costliest natural disaster ...

SEQUIM — The name bears no glamour, but community groups clamor for a piece of it: Sequim’s Water Reuse Demonstration Site, a nearly 28-acre swath north of Carrie Blake Park at 202 N. Blake Ave., is a ...

Five concepts for reuse of the old Machon School property on Burpee Road were presented at Tuesday’s open house in the high school cafeteria. Three of the ideas involved senior affordable housing, ...

HEIDELBERG, Germany (April 15, 2008) -- Recycling is a concept the German community has adopted with vigor, and U.S. Army Europe and Installation Management Command-Europe officials are trying to ...