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 ...

These Millennials are experts when it comes to waste reduction, and they want you to join the movement. Living a zero-waste lifestyle isn’t easy. It takes time, persistence, and creativity to ...

Zero waste is an approach to waste management that emphasizes a cradle-to-cradle theory, where a material or product is recycled into a new product at the end of its life. It strives for reduced ...

New York City not too long ago had a landfill you could see from space. Now it has a plan to get to “zero waste” in the next 15 years–a task that might seem impossible to anyone who has wandered the ...

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UB has established recycling programs for numerous materials across campus. Discover how you can contribute to waste reduction in your university community. Completed in September 2024, "Zero Waste: A ...

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 ...

In a world increasingly choked by waste, the international Forum on Zero Waste Living, to be held in Istanbul from 17 to 19 October 2025, marks a pivotal moment in global efforts to curb waste at its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...