Monks are making their traditional saffron orange robes from recycled plastic bottles and bags that they collect themselves in their communities.
The volunteer mission is expected to feed more than 20,000 people now that the food has been successfully distributed throughout southern Florida.
More than 200 unwanted fur coats have been handed out to Afghani families living in poverty in the capital city of Kabul.
UK researchers have developed a new method that could allow plant-based plastic to be endlessly recycled, rather than rotting in a landfill.
The company that has been selling $20 plastic bracelets made of ocean plastic are expanding their operations into Guatemala and Central America.
Student attendance rates have returned to their normal levels since this Indian school transformed two unused train cars into classrooms.
The ingenious and easy-to-install device allows homeowners to flush all of their food scraps down the drain for composting, rather than the trash.
The "Agave Project" straws are being hailed as a first-of-its-kind model for recycling distillation waste into utensils that are similar to plastic.
Huge companies like IKEA, Walmart, and MATTEL are working to reduce plastics in their products and packaging.
Not only does it keep the Christmas trees out of a landfill, it also helps provide sturdy, reliable hand-crafted canes for veterans around the world.
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Contrary to what some pessimistic news outlets might have you believe, this year's environmental progress was not all doom and gloom.
We may soon be replacing corrosive, polluting road salts with eco-friendly biowaste such as grape skins, apple waste, and peony leaves.
Using an average of 250 bottles per vehicle, the company has been turning the plastic waste into undershields, carpets, and wheel liners.
The Asian country is set to ban microbeads, cap seals, and oxo-degradable plastic by the end of this year alone.
Despite how the company tried to placate Jessie by saying they would consider her proposal, the young eco-warrior is not giving up that easily.
Not only does his organization help to keep Cameroon clean of plastic waste, it also helps to promote ecotourism and support low-income fishermen.
10-year-old Ryan Hickman, who started his own recycling business at 3-years-old went to DC to lobby for the bill supporting standardized recycling labels.
By melting recycled tires and other additives into a putty, this student has developed a new form of self-repairing road pavement.
Fabscrap, a New York City recycling service, takes fashion industry waste like textile scrap and leftover yardage and reuses or recycles it.
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