Aspen was the place to be this past weekend for “Eco Fest”, a gathering of food, festivities, new products and ideas. A beautiful venue to showcase the ongoing need to rethink the way we live our ...

There is ample debate about the origins of the environmental sustainability motto “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle,” that is always ubiquitous around the occasion of Earth Day. Some believe it traces its ...

The circular economy—the idea of "reduce, reuse and recycle"—has long been promoted as one solution to the environmental ...

Eastman takes a principled approach to developing solutions for the circular economy. In our previous article, “Six principles for the circular economy,” we introduced our approach to evaluating ...

I reuse glass jars as flower vases or to store things like homemade dressing, I save paper grocery bags from Trader Joe’s to line our recycling bin, and I have a super powerful disposal to cut down on ...

While the three R's reduce, reuse and recycle constitute the most well-known mantra of the eco-conscious, Kay McKeen of environmental education nonprofit SCARCE says a fourth ‘R' should be added: ...

In the 1960s, beverage containers were glass, aluminum, or cardboard. Why can’t we go back there today for many of our liquid products? It doesn’t take a new packaging discovery, a new plastic formula ...

In the r/zerowaste subreddit, a Reddit user posted photos of their favorite hack for keeping tissues on hand while traveling.

Every 24 hours, 150 species are lost and by 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean. With the threat of global warming and climate change looming large, Earth Day on April 22 ...

If you're looking for something creative to do with the kids, a special fashion show is happening this weekend at the New ...

Underground collection pipes round up everything that goes down the drain — from shower water to laundry leftovers to sewage — and channel it toward the nearest wastewater treatment facility. The ...