Recycling remains the easiest way for most of us to have a significant daily impact on the environment. Reduced energy use from recycling can have substantial impacts on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, and protects our natural resources. Yet, sadly, our national recycling rates show that there's much more

These days, everyone's recycling, right? You would think so. It is, after all, the era of "green." Undoubtedly people are reporting that they're doing more recycling lately, and rising recovery rates attest to that. But these increases are slow. Access to convenient recycling isn't universal, and even in areas that do have robust recycling options, a lot of valuable materials are still winding ...

For almost fifteen years now, MBDC has been helping companies design products and processes to be more ecologically intelligent.

One of the first things we do is ask our clients to imagine that the materials used through their business process are food or nutrients. What goes in must come out. And what comes out must be reusable. This simple analogy of re-conceiving the purpose of m...

Here is a great video we came across that shows recycling as part of our generation’s mission. Although plastic water bottles make up only 1/3 of 1% of all landfill waste, we think that is even too much. In the video, a well informed teenage eco-ambassador has one goal: to increase the number of recycling bins...

I’m always amazed to see what people can do with stuff that otherwise might just have been thrown away. A big part of why I’m so passionate about the re-source™ recycling mission is because I find the ingenuity that goes into reusing things inspiring.  But even more importantly, I think it reassures me that collectively “we” are continuing to push tow...

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