University of Delaware

From trash to treasure

Kelly Cobb stands on a stepstool to reach the square opening atop a tall blue machine in the Sustainable Textile Research through Applied Discovery (RAD) Lab at the University of Delaware. Carefully, ...
Nature

Waste Management, Reduction, Reuse and Recycling

Waste management has evolved from a linear model of “take–make–dispose” to a more sustainable framework predicated on reduction, reuse and recycling within a circular economy. Contemporary strategies ...
OPB

Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf

YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP via Getty Images The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers ...
Forbes

Recycling And Reuse? Ways To Win The War On Waste

Big F&B companies are taking steps to advance waste solutions, even as current product packaging continues to accumulate. No one can question that we have a global problem with food and beverage waste ...
Uticaod

Waste Authority Recycling Champion: Utica nonprofit helps unwanted stuff become art

When the Meals on Wheels program in Syracuse stopped using Styrofoam trays, it donated hundreds of unused trays to Utica Creative Reuse. Second graders at Bradley Elementary School in New Hartford ...
The Business Journals

5 economic and environmental benefits to recycling construction and demolition material

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the ...
NPR

Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic-makers used recycling as a fig leaf

The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers sort their trash so plastic packaging ...