Zero Waste at the University of Michigan, in collaboration with the Student Sustainability Coalition, hosted the UMich Zero Waste Challenge from Feb. 16 to 20 to reduce waste on campus. More than ...

Plastic bottles, food scraps and cardboard boxes don’t just disappear once tossed in the garbage. They might be out of sight, but they’re not out of mind. Instead, they wind up in landfills or foul ...

Garbage trucks and semis roll in and out of Leveda Brown Environmental Park, each carrying up to 22 tons of garbage. Most of that waste didn’t have to be there. A tour of the Leveda Brown Transfer ...

Looking for savvy ways to cut your food waste this Zero Waste Week? We can learn a lot from restaurant kitchens, where chefs are always experimenting with innovative techniques and recipes. Here we ...