Nebraska Hy-Vee stores are composting excess food – couldn’t some of that be diverted to feed the hungry? Plus, free market bottle recycling in Texas.
Category: Business
Upcycling The Digital Divide Away: The Digitruck
Arrow Value Recovery & Close the Gap use upcycling – of electronic waste as well as used shipping containers – to bridge the international digital divide.
Do Coffee Grounds Make Great Office Furniture? You Might Be Surprised…
British non-profit Re-Worked turns coffee grounds from businesses into furniture that those same businesses can use in their work spaces.
The Waste Biz: Keep America Beautiful Releases Workplace Recycling Study Results
How well do American offices and workplaces recycled materials? Non-profit Keep America Beautiful released the results of its Recycling at Work study.
The Waste Biz: Has Recycling Glass Gotten Too Expensive?
Recycling glass has gotten so expensive that haulers have to pay recyclers to take the material. Is single-stream recycling to blame? This week’s Waste Biz.
The Waste Biz: Material Efficiency, Circular Economy Key To Fighting Climate Change
A new study from the Club of Rome shows that material efficiency policies could have significant effects on carbon emissions: this week’s Waste Biz.
Food Waste Collection Entrepreneur Balances Business With Grade School [Video]
Fifth-grader Carter Schmidt has been collecting food waste and delivering finished compost by bike for three years.
The Waste Biz: New Network Brings Socially-Minded Recyclers Together
Seven e-waste recyclers with social missions have formed Impact Recyclers, a network for streamlining services + infinite plastic water bottles.
Can You Help Launch The Best Green Jobs Site Ever?
Important Media is raising funds to create the web’s best green jobs site. Contributors can buy books, games, ads, or just a good feeling.
The Waste Biz: How To Boost The Production Of Methane Gas From Landfills… Really
Why would you want a landfill to produce more methane gas? To make waste-to-energy systems profitable. This week’s edition of The Waste Biz.
How A Shipping Container Restaurant Is Bringing Supper Club Concept Back To Asheville [Photos]
New shipping container restaurant Smokey Park Super Club will bring wood-fired goodness and live entertainment to riverside Asheville, North Carolina.
The Zero-Emission Mobile Juice Bar: Herb-N-Juice
Chicago start-up Herb-N-Juice brings the food truck concept to the juice bar, but does so with zero emissions and responsible waste handling.
The Waste Biz: How To Get That Last Bit Of Toothpaste Out
New company Liquiglide helps consumers gets all of the product, whether lotion, ketchup, or toothpaste, out of the bottle: this week’s Waste Biz.