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Operation Food Search announced an expanded partnership with Becker360 to continue growing the Repurpose for a Purpose ...

The pandemic has forced us, as a nation, to focus on the issues of environmental and personal health. More and more, consumers are coming to understand that these two massive parts of our daily life ...

This video shows how discarded items can be repurposed into useful tools and materials for off grid living. It focuses on ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Solid components such as used grains and yeast from this waste end up in landfills, ...

No matter how good of a cook you are, chances are a portion of that meal will end up in a landfill. But American University professor Sauleh Siddiqui says food waste isn't the fault of any one person ...

Recycling your empty food packaging is responsible. But actually finding a new, long-term use for that packaging?

The study will review domestic and international examples and will identify opportunities for repurposing plastics in asphalt, other transportation infrastructure, and in infrastructure outside the ...

Some compounds in waste produced in the brewing process could be repurposed for antibacterial drugs. Iuri Gagarin/iStock via Getty Images Solid components such as used grains and yeast from this waste ...