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Recycling: From the Archives
Dig deeper into these articles on recycling from the TreeHugger and Planet Green archives.
Recycling: how to do it
It's important to know your recycling numbers so everything that's supposed to get recycled, does get recycled.
You probably don't think about it every day, but mattress recycling is at once important, and not as easy as you'd think.
Enlarge your brain with aluminum recycling knowledge from Bill Nye and his show, Stuff Happens.
Ever wondered what goes on at a recycling plant? Of course you have, and here's the answer.
When your favorite running shoes have trekked their last mile, here's how to send them to the great oval track in the sky.
Recycling everthing: our favorite examples
Q&A: Recycling Christmas Cards
Drap-Art is a Barcelona group devoted to the artistic reincarnation of materials. They host a yearly International Creative Recycling Festival.
TreeHugger passes on the advise of Salon.com on how to recycle your computer.
Crazy Crayons are remade from the stumps of their departed brethren.
TreeHugger responds to a reader who asks what she can do with her company’s obsolete CDs.
The Ecopod is a slick, integrated recycling receptacle and compactor.
Smallplanet is a Canadian company that makes recyclable baby diapers.
Swap-o-Rama-Rama is a concept that’s part swap meet, part crafts fair, part public art project.
“What Can We Do With Our Used Styrofoam?”
The brilliant (and sadly now defunct) groundscout.com provided a high-tech way for people to share knowledge of fabulous “garbage.”
Started by a groups of web designers in Vancouver, MaterialLove is a site for exchanging, selling, and giving away useful goods that may not fit in the recycle bin.
Two entrepreneurs in Philadelphia have devised a techie system that rewards people when they recycle.
How to recycle a jumbo jet (sort of).
The world’s richest self-made woman is a Chinese paper recycling entrepreneur.
The Product Service System explored.
Retrobox is a computer recycling service with a model that works.
Tennis balls are (quietly) reused by the millions in Japan.
Recycling for the 21st Century is a roundup of some of TreeHugger’s favorite (tasteful) recycled products.
The clothing company Patagonia has been a genuine pioneer in making high-performance garments from recycled materials, and has recently started recycling old garments into new ones.
Tattered library books become unique journals.
Recycled denim can become home insulation.
Discarded umbrellas become fabulous gowns that look amazing on the runway.
Denim Therapy gives new life to old jeans.
Cargabags are recycled wool bags from Argentina.
Good design makes old T-shirts into great bags or even underwear.
Freitag bags are made from recycled truck tarps.
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