When she was 15, Ava Langridge watched a YouTube video that explained how environmental activist Lauren Singer fit four years of trash into a 16-ounce mason jar. Inspired, the Bay Area teen embarked ...

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Zero Waste is defined as: The conservation of all resources by means of responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging and materials without burning and with no ...

This story is part of the Grist arts and culture series Remember When, a weeklong exploration of what happened to the climate solutions that once clogged our social feeds. Almost a decade ago, Kathryn ...

At my local supermarket here in Hong Kong, plastic is king. Avocados and oranges are individually swaddled in plastic wrap. Apples come in hard plastic clamshells. Bananas, despite having their own ...

In San Francisco, both composting and recycling became mandatory in 2009. The three-stream sorting system – compost, recycling, and trash for landfill/incineration – had been developed in pilot ...

Chef Doug McMaster at Silo Restaurant in London. Launched in 2014, Silo billed itself as the world's first zero-waste restaurant. Since then, a number of restaurants at every price point, from cafes, ...

Delaware County Council adopted the county’s first-ever Zero Waste Plan, which is intended to dramatically reduce the amount of waste sent to either an incinerator or landfill. “If we want to see a ...

Your vanity is likely filled with bottles, jars and tubes of beauty products. And eventually, those containers get thrown away (or, hopefully, recycled). But what if you didn’t have to worry about any ...

Dakota Waste Solutions LLC hopes to begin construction this spring on a “zero-waste” recycling and composting facility in Lakeville. The city’s planning commission recently approved a rezoning request ...

From left: Phoenix Zero Waste team members Ethan McCloskey, Ariel LeBarron, Alexis Yaple, Lucas Mariacher, Diana Felix, Eric MacDonald and intern Spencer Bienstock The city of Phoenix is striving to ...