One thing we know for certain about death is that we will definitely run out of room to bury people in the very near future. The switch to universal cremation is inevitable. But even after we switch ...

The good news: Compostable packaging does actually turn to compost just like your food scraps do, which is way gentler on the ...

Retailers have a smorgasbord of choices when they shop for fresh food containers. Because they serve consumers with different needs in diverse markets, retailers say there is no one plastic that can ...

Such burials require no formaldehyde embalming, vaults or laminated caskets. Cynthia Beal talks about the Ecopod, a kayak-looking container made out of recycled newspaper from the United Kingdom, at ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Drum roll, please: We are six weeks away from the first day of spring. Recent warm Colorado days have previewed the changing seasons, but we know that along ...

Gardeners and farmers across the world want to grow food without wasting resources. Sometimes this desire results in a surprising innovation, as it did for Maxwel Oyoo, a college student at the ...

In an effort to mitigate consumer confusion and help maintain the integrity of recyclable materials streams, three laws proposed in North Carolina and Alabama would require containers made from ...

, marking that company's first purchase order. The preforms are injection molded from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and the EcoPure organic additive, which reportedly renders the bottles ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. It's nice to dream of a zero waste world, in which people ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heald, who worked with Carnival leadership—or "the beards," as he affectionately calls them—to establish this policy, manages ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Simple, green burials were the American standard until the Civil War, when many soldiers were embalmed so their bodies could be returned home. President Abraham Lincoln’s ...

EcoPure has won another customer for its additive technology that renders plastic bottles biodegradable. SodaStream International Ltd. (Airport City, Israel) will utilize Bio-Tec Environmental LLC's ...