A new era of fashion recycling is finally arriving. A startup called For Days, for instance, has created a T-shirt subscription service that allows customers to return a shirt after they are done wearing it, and the company will recycle…
Over the past 50 years, we have moved from reusable solutions to disposable, single-use items. But the recycling system hasn’t kept pace. Today, just 2% of the plastic on the market is turned into new packaging. Read more in weforum…
Adidas partnered with Parley for the Oceans, a nonprofit that fights ocean plastic waste, to develop the shoe. Part of the upper is made from plastic bottles, bags, and other plastic that commonly ends up in the water. Read nore…
There is a special task force of “garbage detectives” that goes around examining wrongfully placed or suspicious-looking trash. They actually go through the stuff, looking for something that will reveal the garbage’s rightful owner, read more in nytimes Learning to…
Even though his architectural vision appears to be centered around the idea of sustainability, Reynolds isn’t your typical environmentalist. learn more in grist Building solar homes from recycled materials By Kate Yoder was last modified: February 15th, 2016 by futu…
An estimated $4.5 trillion in economic growth could be unlocked by 2030 if companies and society switches from a linear economy to a circular economy, in which materials are recycled and reused for further manufacturin read more in waste dive …
Sainsbury’s, the second-largest chain of supermarkets in the UK. has managed to achieve zero waste to landfill since June 2013. This means that all its store waste is diverted from landfills by donating, recycling, or turning it into fuel. learn…
If current trends continue, we’ll be dealing with three times as much waste by the end of this century as we are now, warns the World Bank. One solution is to treat waste as a resource—a solution that could also…
