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Lifestyle
Does Green Beer Come in Bottles or Cans?
Some craft brewers are ditching bottles for cans and clapping their hands. Should we all be applauding the move?
Environment
U.K. Company to Make Power from 50 Year-Old Garbage
Digging up the waste from the past could power 60,000 homes if a plan to mine a landfill for energy comes to be.
Education
Middle School Students Tell LAUSD: No More Styrofoam!
A group of sixth graders collected used Styrofoam trays from their cafeteria and strung them into an installation to raise awareness about waste.
Environment
Scotland Launches a Much Smarter Recycling Program
Scotland is completely reorganizing how it measures and incentivizes recycling to focus on what matters most: reducing carbon. It's a global first.
Education
Duke and UNC Adopt Caps and Gowns Made Out of Recycled Plastic Bottles
Good news: A new fabric called GreenWeaver, spun from molten plastic pellets, is being used for the graduation gear by a growing list of schools.
Lifestyle
Does It Actually Make a Difference How Clean Your Recyclables Are?
To clean or not to clean? The answer hinges on the economics of food residue.
Business
Target Dumping Settlement: Did We Get Fooled by Clever PR?
Target was touting its buy-back program while quietly paying a $22.5 million settlement for illegal dumping of hazardous waste. Did we get fooled?
Lifestyle
BYO Flat-Pack Recycling Bin: Useful or Not?
A French firm has designed a portable six-compartment recycling bin for use at spontaneous picnics. Vote to let us know what you think: useful or not?
Culture
Finally, a Way to Stop Getting Those Dumb Yellow Pages
The famed phonebook company is at long last making a serious push to stop delivering their product to people who don't need it.
Culture
Idea: A Simple Device to Catch Rain and Water Your Plants
The Raindrop Mini provides an easy, attractive way for urbanites to collect rain the way their rural counterparts have been doing for years.
Environment
Video: Van Jones Speaks at TEDxGPGP on the Economic Injustice of Plastic
Van Jones talks about the injustices—health, economic, environmental—of plastic and our addiction to disposability.
Lifestyle
Banned Four Loko to Be Reborn as Fuel
So what's happening to all that leftover Four Loko, now that it's been banned? It's being turned into ethanol, of course.
News
This Guy Saved All His Trash for a Year. What's Your Resolution?
Meet a college student who made a tough resolution and stuck with it.
Design
Nike Print Pack: Shoes Made from Old Magazines
Maybe there's life for print publications after all. Or at least an afterlife. Nike has released a set of shoes made from old glossies.
Design
Winner Announced: Design Another Use for an Everyday Object
Susie Rogers and her rescue of an entertainment center wins our latest project, so we're sending her to the Compostmodern conference next month.
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Submissions: Design Another Use for an Everyday Object
Check out the submissions from our latest project. The winning idea will receive two tickets to Compostmodern.
Environment
Chart: Recycling Is Way, Way Up in California
Last year 82 percent of bottles and cans sold in California were recycled. That's the highest level since 1992. Recycle Rex would be proud.
Design
Project: Design Another Use for an Everyday Object
Show us a simple, everyday solution where design thinking and sustainable thinking brilliantly co-exist, and you'll win two tickets to Compostmodern!
