"Waste" Blogs & Blog Posts

Coffee companies like Keurig and Nespresso produce almost 50 billion single-serve coffee pods a year. Club Coffee makes a compostable alternative.

Extracting resources from under the ground is an expensive and environmentally harmful thing to do. It’s also political challenging in many places to open (or expand) new mining operations, the recent court ruling in Panama demonstrates this. F...

The best way for a regional government to reduce food waste is to set goals. Previous and common efforts focus on messaging and even in increasing the cost of managing food waste for households. New research shows that simply setting food waste reduc...

Last month I wrote about Wastiary: A Bestiary of Waste and I'm thrilled to share another terrific free book about the politics of (over)consumption, trash, waste, and consumer capitalism. It's called Discard Studies and was writte...

The Plant belonged to one of Chicago's dirtiest industries. Now it's home to a beekeeper, a coffee roaster, indoor farms, and algae laboratories.

A world of untapped energy is all around us. Excess heat from sewage, computers, buildings, and trains can be diverted to warm homes.

Packaging for lotion, toothpaste, and makeup is a recycling disaster. But a UK business is turning it into plywood-like boards to make furniture.