Thanks to a little healthy competition between city sanitation workers and two private firms, the roughly 320,000 Chicago households without curbside recycling could be getting blue bins to call their own.
Been waiting patiently for the chance to show off your mad upcycling skills? Enter Project ReMAKE, a DIY design contest in which entrants have the chance to win 3-D printers and a trip to World Maker Faire.
Four hundred previously loved toilets are transformed (ground into porcelain bits and mixed with gravel and asphalt) into a new 'poticrete' sidewalk in Bellingham, Wash.
The New York City Department of Sanitation deems the re-fashioNYC textile recycling initiative a success with 50 tons of last season's sweaters and stained-beyond-repair towels being donated in a six month period.
In lieu of tacking on a fee for plastic shopping bags or banning them altogether, the city of Madison, Wis., will start to offer curbside recycling for the landfill-clogging buggers.