Recycling

If you like minimalist wallets and recycling this is the wallet for you. This design was inspired by this Kickstarter product with some personal modifications. This wallet can hold around ten credit cards, paper money bills and even small change. The build p…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin When people worry about negative effects on the environment, they think first of the big players businesses and industries that make a bigger impact than everyday consumer…

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Beachcombing has long been a part of life for island communities. On the southwestern edge of Scarp, a small, treeless island off the coast of Harris in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, the Mol Mòr (“big beach”) was where locals went to collect driftwood for repair…

Image copyrightAFPImage caption Microplastics have been found in rivers, lakes, drinking water supplies and bottled water Microplastics in drinking water do not appear to pose a health risk at current levels, according to the World Health Organization (WHO…

Fund That Flip, a New York- and Cleveland, Ohio-based marketplace lender of residential real estate loans, today announced that it’s secured $11 million in funding from Edison Partners. Founder and CEO Matt Rodak said that the capital infusion, which brings t…

Donald Sanderson says people in Woodbury, N.J., call him the "father of recycling" after he and other City Council members in 1980 passed what they say was the first mandatory curbside recycling program in the United States. Rebecca Davis/NPR When curbside …

Upgrades for your kitchen that are functional, design-forward and kinder to the environment While it’s crucial to shift much of the onus from consumers to big brands and the government regarding sustainability, we can all do better. (For example, while the US…

Recycling material moves along a conveyor belt to be sorted at Waste Management's Material Recovery Facility in Elkridge, Md. In 2018, China announced it would no longer buy most plastic waste from places like the U.S. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images The U.S. us…

Skyscrapers are typically places for people to live and work. But what if they could also help save the world? That’s the idea behind the design journal eVolo’s annual skyscraper competition, which solicits concepts for the tall buildings of the future. For …