Cincinnati officials are launching a global search for innovative ideas to increase recycling. Council Member Liz Keating announced the second "hackathon" contest, funded with $20,000 in the current ...

MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In festive news, a majority (66%) of U.S. adult consumers believe that recycling paper is worth it and 60% felt that recycling is easy, according to recent research by ...

Piggy banks made out of plastic bottles and holiday decorations that were originally just toilet paper rolls composed some of the unique arts and craft projects that local park attendants created on ...

Organizers of this year's RecycleMania run are using new techniques to encourage on-campus recycling - but they're recycling ideas from last year, too. Although last week marked the beginning of ...

I think recycling household items is an awesome and creative way to reuse the resources we already own! I’ve been really trying hard to do this with my “stuff” as well - here are ingenious ways to ...

In the time it takes you to read this sentence — say, four seconds — the world produces nearly 60 metric tons of plastic, almost entirely out of fossil fuels. That’s about 53,000 metric tons an hour, ...

A video posted last week by Quantum Tech racked up nearly 100,000 views in less than 24 hours on YouTube. What drew so much attention? The “Brilliant Ideas with Plastic Bottles” video, with a tagline ...

Readers discussed reducing car crashes [“A few ideas to reduce crashes on roadways,” Letters, Sept. 17]. The first reader suggests “fake” police cars parked on highways to slow down traffic. Something ...