When I visited my friend in Scotland, I was amazed to see how little waste from her family of four actually went into the garbage can. Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, ...

It was 1970 when Gary Anderson, a 23-year-old architecture student at the University of Southern California, saw a poster for a design competition. The task was to design a symbol for recycling in ...

Waste is a major problem in almost every country around the world, accounting for 3 per cent of yearly greenhouse emissions in the EU alone. Large landfill sites, often sited in developing countries, ...