Upcycle

Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, teams up with Recycle Across America and Pivot TV's "Human Resources" reality show to help consumers recycle right and upcycle waste. Read More

Our family tradition of wrapping presents in fabric gift bags began as little brown paper bags. When my parents were first married in 1942, they lived in a basement apartment, the ceiling crisscrossed with pipes. For one of Mom’s birthdays, when Pop couldn’t afford much, he got her a bunch of little gifts, “Ning-A-Nings,” as we call them. He put them in little brown paper bags and hung them with string on the pipes. When Mom came home from work, she was greeted with all these little bags of surprises. She loved it! We had paper bag birthdays from that point on! Read More

Want to learn about blood diamonds and dirty gold as well as recycled, greener alternatives to traditional diamond engagement and gold wedding rings? Read More

Image consultant Keila Tyner offers creative solutions for upcycling old t-shirts and explains why it is so hard to get rid of them in the first place. Read More

Creative DIY projects to repurpose those old cassette tapes and vinyl records and prevent them from winding up in the trash. Read More

Coke 2nd Lives upcycling campaign raises issues of safety, and diversion from real solutions. Are there better ways to encourage upcycling? Read More

Trash day in NYC turns into Tuesday 'Discovery' Nights when the waste-haters of the city can search through trash and find themselves new treasures. Read More

The size of Apple's new iPhone 5 will make old iPhone covers obsolete. Here are four ways you can repurpose it to keep the plastic out of the landfill. Read More

How to creatively repurpose old window shutters into a storage unit. Read More

Holding onto dear possessions has a greater meaning than just preventing waste. Read More