6 Shares DIY Planters Made From Your Own Junk: 19 Plans Ready to get some flowers blooming or vegetables growing? These DIY planters not only look great, but come from materials you may already have laying around More
4 Shares52 Views Easy Upcycling: Soda Bottle Bird Feeder Got a soda bottle sitting in the recycling bin? Turn it into a bird feeder just in time for Spring… More
6 Shares How To Turn Plastic Bottles Into Twine [Video] As a good greenie, I’d argue that plastic bottles are one of those things we should think about mostly in terms of “reduce” rather than the normal “recycle.” But I also use them: I generally don’t buy bottled water or soft drinks, but I can’t say “never,” either. And, of course, my pantry and fridge […] More
7 Shares The Waste Biz: Time To Shake Up The Recycling Business? Waste Management’s CEO wants to shake up the recycling business to make it more profitable, rocket reuse, and food waste to liquid fertilizer. More
6 Shares145 Views How To Make Homemade Potpourri With Citrus Fruit Peels If you go through a lot of citrus fruit, why not turn some of those peels into homemade potpourri before sending it to the compost bin? More
7 Shares21 Views Shipping Containers Add Hip Sustainability To New Marriott Brand [Photographs] Mariott launched it Moxy Hotels brand in the US with the display of an open-air bar and hotel room prototype made from shipping containers. More
5 Shares11 Views Recycling Those 3D Printing Fails: The Cruncher As with other printing, 3D printing involves some failures. The Cruncher is a machine that recycles those failures into plastic pellets for future prints. More
6 Shares Ideas For Preserving And Reusing Grandma's Keepsakes And Mementos Helping Grandma downsize into a new living space? Don’t toss those keepsakes & mementos – make sure those memories get preserved. More
8 Shares Super Bowl To Kick Off Food Waste Recycling Efforts In Phoenix Phoenix will use this weekend’s Super Bowl as a high-profile venue to kick off municipal efforts at food waste recycling and composting. More
7 Shares57 Views DIY Pallet Furniture: 9 Projects Reusing Freely Available Waste Wood These DIY pallet furniture projects take “waste” wood that’s freely available, and turn them into beautiful, distressed-look furnishings for your home. More
6 Shares sustainablog's Best Of 2014: Our Top Ten Posts Our best of 2014 included a lot of DIY upcycling projects, from building your own wind turbine to repurposing discarded electronic devices. More
9 Shares19 Views Redesigning Play Time: How An Engineer Creates Toys From Trash To Educate Children Engineer Arvind Gupta thinks the trash can or recycle bin can enhance a child’s play time much more than the toy or discount store. More
6 Shares Four Upcycled Approaches To Artificial Christmas Trees [Photos] These four artificial Christmas trees featuring reused or recycled materials show how this simple holiday symbol can inspire artists and makers. More
6 Shares DIY: 10 Ideas For Creating Custom Ornaments From Trash Give your home a unique look with these ideas for custom ornaments made from materials you’ll find in your recycling bin or trash can. More
8 Shares36 Views Could Deposit Programs Keep Disposable Take Out Containers Out of the Trash? Could a “bottle deposit”-like system work for reusable take out containers? Food service giant Sodexo is trying it out at the College of William and Mary. More
7 Shares84 Views DIY Home Building: The $300 Cabin Made from Recycled Materials DIY home building isn’t just green; it’s can also be cheap. Check out this tiny house made largely from salvaged & recycled materials. Total cost: $300. More
5 Shares Vanadium Flow Battery Uses Recycled Fly Ash Imergy Power Systems’ flow battery power storage system cuts costs in half by making use of fly ash waste to obtain vanadium. More
8 Shares What's Your Business Waste Worth? Find Out on a Commercial Materials Exchange The commercial materials exchange takes business waste from one place, and offers it for sale or use to organizations or other businesses that need it. More
4 Shares208 Views Reusing Cigarette Butts, Filters, and Ashes Cigarette waste such as ashes and discarded filters can have important uses. Butts make excellent supercapitors, rust inhibitors and industrial pallets, while ashes can be turned into water filters. More
6 Shares13 Views 15 Things You Can Do with Used Tea Bags Don’t toss those used tea bags after making your tea – there are all sorts of things you can do with them! From cleaning to freshening your breath… More
7 Shares But How Much Waste Does GM Keep Out of Landfills? General Motors just announced 11 more facilities with landfill-free status, which means 122 of the company’s locations send nothing to landfills. More
6 Shares17 Views Saving The Planet And Money At The Construction Site Many of the materials from a construction site don’t need to be pitched: they can be reused or recycled in the building process. More
6 Shares Dumpster Diving to Meet Living Building Challenge Requirements The Chesapeake Bay Foundation has been “dumpster diving” for materials to meet Living Building Challenge standards for a new educational building. More
11 Shares Moving an Elderly Loved One: How to Recycle & Reuse All the Stuff That’s Left Behind Helping your elderly loved move means helping them downsize. It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of stuff we can build up over a lifetime of living! Even for the most eco-conscious person, it’s tempting to just throw it all in a dumpster and be done with it. If that sentiment sounds familiar, […] More
4 Shares sustainablog's New Focus: Waste (Not!) We’ve decided to tighten our focus after 11 years of generalizing. sustainablog’s now all waste all the time. Reduce, reuse, recycle and upcycle… More
