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Recycling
Recycling is the processing of used materials into new products. The process helps preserve useful materials and, by extension, reduces the consumption of fresh raw materials. In turn, recycling helps reduce energy usage, air pollution, water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
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Why China isn't taking American trash anymore
And why it's hurting the recycling industry.
54 | May 10, 2013 6:15am |
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Architecture schools, beyond the classroom
A new generation of architecture students is marshalling their brains and muscle behind projects that make a real-world difference for the disadvantaged, disabled or displaced.
1 | May 8, 2013 3:00am |
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Q&A: Catarina Mota, co-founder, openMaterials.org
She bakes bioplastics, creates magnetic paint and says we can experiment with these smart materials, too.
May 6, 2013 3:00am |
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Building the new with the old: the secret world of second-hand construction
BERLIN -- Specialists preserving the German capital's complex past and present say construction groups could save time and money by opting for second-hand materials.
5 | May 2, 2013 3:00am |
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From brand to icon: Chanel No.5 on display in Paris
PARIS -- An upcoming exhibit on Chanel No.5 explains how this particular perfume became such a global icon.
April 26, 2013 3:00am |
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First quarter 2013 slow for venture funding, but software still shines
Venture capitalists continued to put money into software and media ventures, but have backed away from clean technology and life sciences in the first quarter of 2013.
April 22, 2013 7:22am |
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What if we could eat wood?
Would we then be able to feed the whole world? Maybe. Scientists have found a way to turn indigestible cellulose into starch.
33 | April 18, 2013 5:23pm |
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Nuclear waste to preserve food, sterilize medical gear
"Don't store it. More it." It's worth billions.
6 | April 16, 2013 3:52am |
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Building the world's largest nuclear fusion reactor
BARCELONA -- Part 1 in a two-part series: France and Spain are set to lead the world's biggest, 18-billion-euro physics experiment. What could go wrong?
13 | March 28, 2013 1:44am |
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Turning Japan's nuclear past into its future
A Tokyo company plans to burn nuclear "waste" in a thorium molten salt reactor for a meltdown-proof return to nuclear power in the country that has all but shut it down.
5 | March 26, 2013 3:58am |
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Researchers create solar cells from trees
Think solar energy is clean? Researchers want to make it cleaner.
2 | March 25, 2013 1:34pm |
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Disruptor | Mark Bowles, ecoATM
With his unique approach to handling electronic waste, the serial entrepreneur is proving that environmentalism and capitalism don't need to be at odds.
1 | March 14, 2013 3:00am |
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It's a wrap: food packaging design goes high-tech
From software that can take a juice bottle from sketch to virtual store shelf in hours to innovations that make frozen dinners safer and more sustainable, food packaging design is entering a new era.
12 | March 12, 2013 3:00am |
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The four challenges that stand between us and Mars
One of the proposed solutions involves using astronaut waste as a radiation shield.
5 | March 6, 2013 3:28pm |
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How milk jugs can make 3D printing cheaper
The solution to expensive 3D printing could be in your refrigerator right now.
3 | March 6, 2013 4:31am |
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In Melbourne, changing the world with beer
MELBOURNE -- Drink a beer, it's good for the world. That's the proposition being put forward by Australia's first non-profit bar.
1 | March 6, 2013 1:50am |
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Oil boom-inspired housing
The shale boom has created thousands of jobs in oil and rich regions in the United States. It's also created housing shortages for workers and families living in these areas.
4 | March 4, 2013 12:53pm |
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The next big thing: 4D printing
An MIT professor recently unveiled an advanced 3D printing process that allows objects to assemble themselves.
7 | March 1, 2013 3:47am |
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New seat design makes flying more comfortable than ever
An innovative high-tech concept gives passengers much more legroom and a taste of riding first class.
6 | February 20, 2013 4:46am |
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Pollution-eating islands: the latest farming tool
Farmers, worried about new federal regulations, might turn to a different kind of solution to combat polluted water.
3 | February 19, 2013 9:01am |
