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HopfON seeks to reduce the construction industry’s waste, and its planet-warming emissions, by limiting the need for finite resources through hops-made products. Two students in Munich, sipping ...

The potential benefits of reducing food waste are immense. For instance, recovering just one-third of wasted food could feed 870 million people, according to the World Food Program USA.

E-bikes can be hard to spot On the waste handling side, some of the innovations that have made e-bikes more accessible are also creating new problems.

Household waste increases about 25% every year between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Packaging materials, decorations, food waste and unwanted ...

Each year, Reduce Waste Chicago hosts events across the city to collect items to be reused or repurposed. Included in a list of items Chicago residents can drop off are nonworking holiday lights.

In the United States, the holiday season also comes with some costs, including as much as 25% increases in waste going to landfills, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Australians waste around 7.68 million tonnes of food a year. This costs the economy an estimated A$36.6 billion and households up to $2,500 annually. Much of this food is wasted at home. So while ...