May 11, 2013

Fly factory wins prize for turning waste into feed

A fly factory that transforms blood, guts, manure and discarded food into animal feed has won a $100,000 U.N.-backed innovation prize. “We’ve created the first industrial farming operation for flies,” said Jason Drew of AgriProtein Technologies, which devised the concept. The initiative is based ...

Feb 19, 2013

Finns share leftovers to slash waste

Jukka Peltonen has just come home from the shop with a bag of mandarin oranges, but he is disappointed to discover they’re too acidic for his taste. Instead of throwing them out, Peltonen, the head of a PR firm, offers them to his neighbors ...

Recycling gives trashed cigarette butts new life

Feb 5, 2013

Recycling gives trashed cigarette butts new life

Recycling entrepreneur Tom Szaky is stubbing out the world’s cigarette problem — one butt at a time. The 30-year-old who dropped out of Princeton University to start his innovative firm, TerraCycle, in Trenton, New Jersey, says there is no such thing as trash, even ...