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More than ever, students are leading the charge in promoting sustainable living. Protesting is an effective method of getting the attention of lawmakers, but there are other things you can do to improve the environment outside...

A legislator in the California Assembly has introduced a bill that, if passed, would require retailers to make digital receipts the default instead of paper...

RE.BIN is the contemporary alternative to the traditional, boring recycling bin. Made of 100% recycled plastic, its design mimics the shape of a standard paper grocery bag. Consumers can use their paper grocery bags as a...

Starting next year businesses will be able to create their recycled paper from waste scraps using Epson’s PaperLab, the first compact system which recycles without the use of water...

As Halloween approaches, it’s time to start carving jack o’ lanterns and concocting fabulous costumes. And as we do so, it’s worth remembering why it’s always best to create DIY costumes with materials...

Spotted by our friends at Yanko Design, the H+ Bag is a clever paper carrier that—with a few simple folds—transforms into a coat hanger! Designed by students at Kyunghee University in South Korea, the H+ Bag proposes...

Cutting back on packaging can yield huge environmental benefits by reducing materials while cutting carbon emissions from transporting needlessly bulky goods...

A team at the University of Cambridge has developed a remarkable new technique that uses lasers to erase laser-printed paper, leaving pages clean, clear, undamaged, and ready to be reused...

The Inhabitat team is about to do something we’d never thought we’d do. We’re going to advise you to stop recycling something that is fully recyclable: thermal cash register receipts. It turns out that the...

Japanese company Oriental invented a machine that recycles office paper into toilet paper right in your office.