“Smart was green before green was smart.” A PSA video by SMART, the textile recycling industry trade group.
What do you do with your old clothes? Well, if you live in New York City, you’ll likely deposit them for recycling, starting this September. NYC is introducing a unique used textile recycling initiative that might likely become [...]

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Thirty-one persons in California were arrested in April of this year for committing recycling fraud against California taxpayers. The state’s attorney general estimates that the fraudsters illegally collected $3.5 million in redemption money by hauling in truckloads of cans and bottles from the neighboring states of Arizona and Nevada. They are now detained and charged [...]

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So, you have gone through the checklist of starting your home-based recycling business: you’ve taken care of transport and storage; you’ve selected the recyclable material you want to focus on; you’ve made the necessary arrangement with the recycling depot; and you’ve identified your collection points – now what?
It’s time to grow your recycling business.

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The Houston Rockets, the Toyota Center, and Republic Services have signed a five-year agreement designating the Phoenix-based solid waste management company as the official waste and recycling partner for the NBA franchise and their home stadium.

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The traditional waste management 3r’s mantra: reduce, reuse, recycle has just gotten a makeover of sorts – thanks to RecycleBank, an internationally-recognized company that has taken a new approach to recycling. RecycleBank’s spin on the 3r’s? Recycle, redeem, reward!

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I’ve seen shipping containers used as tourist accomodations in a wakeboarding facility in the Philippines, but this upcycling proposal, dubbed project Crou by Olgga Architects in France takes the prize in innovative recycling of shipping containers.

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For those familiar with the oddities at Ripley’s museum, life-sized action figures made from discarded materials isn’t exactly new. This 14-foot Optimus Prime statue created by a Taiwanese DIYer from recycled material, however, is special.

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hosting a video competition “to raise awareness of the connection between the environment and the ’stuff’ people use, consume, recycle, and throw away.” The competition, called “Our Planet, Our Stuff, Our Choice,” aims to promote awareness of recycling, composting, consumption and environmental footprint, and the three R’s – [...]

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What do you do with your Christmas tree after the holidays? A plastic that dissolves in water, a cell phone that’s powered by nothing more than the user’s movements, a new climate bill that will pay cash to US residents – these are some of the stories included in this week’s Top 10 Recycling and [...]

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What to do with your post holiday waste. Photo: Inhabitat
Wondering what to do with all the garbage generated during the holidays? A year after the TVA disaster in Tennessee, are coal ash sites now regulated? Why did the world leaders fail to deliver a binding treaty in Copenhagen? Our choices for the Top 10 environment [...]

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