Compost is made up of "brown" materials rich in carbon and "green" materials rich in nitrogen. Here are some key green ...

The domicology movement aims to save materials from demolished buildings, sending less to landfills. The demolition of abandoned homes can improve a neighborhood, but the disposal of the materials has ...

The Cincinnati Recycling & Reuse Hub will start charging a fee Jan. 1, 2026 for dropping off general recyclable items. At a ...

Between wrapping paper, food scraps and packaging and shipping materials, household waste can increase dramatically during ...

The ReUse Program at the University of Minnesota is working to reduce waste on campus by redistributing, reselling and recycling donated materials. The program receives rolling donations, which they ...

Society as a whole has taken a much dimmer view of highway littering in the past 50 years, said Alex Baldwin, a project manager for Better Futures Minnesota. "We'd like to think sort of the same thing ...

But when the city of San Antonio reached out to her firm, Washington, D.C.-based PlaceEconomics, for help conducting a study on deconstruction — a process of carefully pulling apart buildings to ...