Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. The ...

WEST MICHIGAN — During our National Recycling Week Series, FOX 17 took a look at local organizations that are making strides towards reducing, reusing, and recycling. Frederik Meijer Gardens and ...

Reduce, reuse, recycle. It’s a phrase we’ve all become accustomed to hearing. Some products and materials are commonly recycled with little thought, such as beverage containers in states with a ...

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 ...

For the past five years, artist and architect Dennis Maher has collected discarded building materials from demolition sites and salvage yards throughout the de-industrialized city of Buffalo. He has ...

As architecture’s outsize impacts on climate change become ever more apparent, extreme calls to “just stop building” collide with an industry where demolition and new construction go hand in hand. In ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ReCONNstruction Center, a nonprofit building materials reuse store in New Britain, is helping to save tens of thousands of pounds of building materials from landfills one piece at a time. Instead ...

As Colorado aims to hit ambitious climate action goals, local communities, including those along the Western Slope, are ...