Recycling facilities collect glass and mercury from thrown-away fluorescent bulbs, but discarded lighting could also supply rare-earth metals for reuse. The 17 metals referred to as rare earths aren't ...

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 ...

Give old balloons a clever new purpose with this creative recycling idea that's simple, useful, and fun to try!

Greenback U has a lot of recycling containers on campus. Many are for paper only, some are for paper and cans/bottles/plastics in a single stream, and some are for paper and cans (etc.) separately. In ...

Concrete recycling has traditionally been based on the assumption that old concrete is a lifeless, fully hydrated material. The assumption is that, to reuse it in new concrete production, it must be ...

The fashion industry has a very well-known waste problem. Almost all (roughly 97%) of clothing eventually ends up in a landfill, according to McKinsey, and it doesn't take very long for the lifecycle ...

According to the nonprofit Recycling Partnership, "only 21% of recyclable material is captured and all materials are under-recycled. 76% of recyclables are lost at the household level, underscoring ...