Kim Staley of Pasadena helps her children fill a bottle with hand soap at Sustain.LA, a zero-waste store with a refill station. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) Running low on laundry detergent and ...

Millions of toner cartridges are thrown away every year in the United States. If you stacked all those discarded toner cartridges worldwide in a single year, there'd be enough to circle the Earth more ...

Cost-conscious business owners looking for an effective way to save a buck should consider reusing their workplace's empty printer cartridges. Having your old ...

It wasn’t until Sarah Paiji Yoo became a new mother that her journey into plastic-free living really began. Specifically, it was the switch to baby formula that changed her worldview. Yoo had been ...

Just take a look around your bathroom, and you'll likely see a collection of plastic containers housing shampoo, hand soap and other products that often list water as the first ingredient. The cycle ...

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Last month, when Costco closed in-store photo shops, taking the company’s photo development business entirely online, Ventura County also lost an important environmental service. Those photo shops ...

GARDEN CITY, Idaho — A market that is perhaps the first of its kind in the country is getting ready to open up to customers in Garden City. Lea Rainey and Zach Yunker own Roots Zero Waste Market. The ...

(MENAFN- Pressat) London – The UK-registered charity REUSE Foundation officially launched “Bottles for Good”, a nationwide initiative inviting refill stores (both online and brick-and-mortar) to get ...