Urban Mining

The e-cycleNYC program is available to buildings with more than 10 units with a variety of extra services offered including storage bins, room clean-outs and building events.

The bottle’s shape design will require 15% less energy to produce and will be made with 50% recycled PET.

A new anaerobic digestion system will convert food that can’t be sold or donated into biogas to power a California distribution center.

In the simplest terms, urban mining is recycling. The broad definition is the reclaiming of compounds and elements from products, buildings.

The average lifespan of a cellphone in the U.S. is less than two years. What happens to all the discarded units?

Linoleum flooring lasts decades and can be safely composted or burned for energy at the end of its life.