Every year, smartphones get faster, more durable and capable of shooting sharper photos. But there's another improvement that's become more prominent in recent years: Our phones are increasingly made ...

Timo Rissanen is a founding board member of the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion. Today we make more clothing than ever before. And the driver for this is primarily economic, rather than ...

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The company says it plans to use 100 percent-recycled cobalt, rare earth elements, tin soldering and gold plating. Since 2019, Apple estimates that more than 11,000 kilograms of cobalt have been ...

Three days after the mill burned down, Aaron Feuerstein, then 70 and white-haired, stood before his workers. It was just before Christmas, 1995, and Malden Mills employees were braced for the worst.

Engineers have developed an approach for recycling cement waste into a sustainable, low-carbon alternative that is comparable in performance to the industry standard. Giving a second life to ...

There’s a soap dish for sale at a beauty products shop in São Paulo, Brazil. An off-white disc with a smooth, rounded shape like a river stone, it is just one of millions of plastic soap dishes on ...

Apple has announced a major acceleration of its work to expand recycled materials across its products — including new 2025 targets to use 100 percent recycled cobalt in all Apple-designed batteries; ...