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He Aims to Solve Hunger in Chicago by Bringing Food Waste Down to Zero
His ingenious app, Zero Percent, connects restaurants and schools that have surplus food with nonprofits that bring the food to those in need.
Colombians Are Building Houses With Wasted Plastic—Shaped Into Huge Lego Bricks
A group of Colombians are transforming the serious problem of pollution by using plastic waste—and the Lego building model—as a solution for the thousands...
This Machine Can Turn Your Food Waste Into Biofuel Gas For Cooking (WATCH)
If you never get around to eating your food leftovers, this machine will use them to cook your next meal.
Set it up in your back...
New York City Businesses Cutting Trash by Half in ‘Zero Waste’ Plan
Led by more than 30 corporations and the mayor’s office, New York City is making progress on its goal to reduce the city's waste...
Green Sports Alliance Reduces Waste & Toxic Chemicals in Games Worldwide
A burgeoning movement to make sports more sustainable has signed up almost 300 professional and collegiate teams committed to playing ball with the environment.
The Green...
Slam Dunk for Team Green: Adidas Creates Shoe From Ocean Waste
It’ll be just like walking on water.
Adidas is partnering with an environmental group to create footwear from recycled ocean waste. The concept shoe is...
High End Distillers Join the Fight Against Food Waste
Makers of high-end spirits are buying overripe, misshapen, and undersized fruit directly from farmers across America, doing their part to reduce food waste.
From California...
How 550 Volunteers Transformed a Filthy, Waste-filled Train Station in India
Gaurang Damani was so tired of the dirt and stench in a Mumbai train station that he regularly wrote letters to the Central Railway...
Once a Desert, Ethiopia Turns Wasteland Into Fertile Farms
The Ethiopian desert, full of drought and famine just a generation ago, is turning green with crops. Thousands of villagers are taking up ancient tools...
Cloud Lifts India’s Waste Pickers Off Trash Piles Without Ending Recycling
The third largest city in India piles up huge amounts of garbage every day, while recycling very little. Thousands of Bangalore's poorest citizens pick...
Poo Power: New British Bus Runs on Human Waste
A 40-seat airport shuttle bus in Britain is making headlines for running on human sewage and food waste.
The Bath Bus Company's Bio-Bus hits the...
Humorous Ugly Fruit Campaign Reduces Food Waste in France
A French grocer has increased its customer base by 24 percent since launching its Inglorious Fruits & Vegetables campaign this summer.
Railing against the food...
Army Officer Creates Clothing Line Out of Wasted Surplus Tents
Emily Nunez and her sister have led military lives since birth.
Inspired by her father and uncle, Emily became a U.S. Army 1st Lieutenant in...
Denmark’s Near-Zero-Waste Wonder
The small city of Kalundborg, 64 miles west of Copenhagen, was the first municipality to have engineered a symbiotic relationship between all its industries...
Woman Tackles E-Waste Problem While Giving Jobs to ‘Unhirables’
Electronic waste recycling has quickly become a matter of urgency, as people become aware of the dangers of e-waste. They have begun to demand...
Oslo Turns Food Waste into Fuel for Buses
A plant in Norway last week began converting household food waste into liquid biogas fuel to run the city's 135 buses. As a result,...
GM Achieves Zero Waste-to-Landfill in 109 Factories
It took four years of perseverance for the giant automaker but, now a 75-year old General Motors manufacturing plant has announced it is now...
Startups Try To Reroute Food Waste To The Hungry
A pair of brothers in Washington DC are working toward becoming the air traffic controllers of food, trying to redirect discarded food from dumpsters...
Brains Flush Toxic Waste in Sleep, Including Alzheimer’s Protein
A new study has revealed the restorative power of sleep to cleanup the brain. While we are asleep, our bodies may be resting, but...
Italian Ingenuity: Europe’s First Zero Waste Town
Capannori, a rural town in the Italian province of Lucca, in Tuscany, boasts a proud history. Six years ago, it became a trendsetter and...