When Janet Cruz lost an April election for a Tampa City Council seat, she became a political casualty of an increasingly high-stakes debate over recycled water. During her time in the Florida ...

The ReUse Program at the University of Minnesota is working to reduce waste on campus by redistributing, reselling and recycling donated materials. The program receives rolling donations, which they ...

Interest also is rising in direct potable reuse, which involves piping treated effluent directly into the drinking water distribution system, say industry firms active in the water sector. One of the ...

The Senate has passed the bipartisan Research for Environmental Uses and Sustainable Economies (REUSE) Act of 2025, which directs the Environmental Protection Agency to develop a report on the best ...

Municipal leaders wear a lot of hats, but chief among them is ensuring a vibrant, robust and economically-sound downtown. As any policymaker or elected official knows, that’s much easier said than ...

Big F&B companies are taking steps to advance waste solutions, even as current product packaging continues to accumulate. No one can question that we have a global problem with food and beverage waste ...

As society has evolved from a predominantly rural population to an increasingly urban one, real estate trends have responded. In 1800, approximately 6% of the human population lived in cities; by 1900 ...

A new white paper from Solar Panel Recycling argues that interconnection rules and unfavorable economics make large-scale, responsible reuse largely infeasible.

Look around any city or town, and you’ll likely find examples of aging buildings in need of restoration, rehabilitation, or reconstruction. From rural villages to urban metropolises, the world around ...

Water recycling in office buildings is seen as a promising sustainability effort, as well as a smart hedge against rising costs and future shortages. Salesforce Tower in San Francisco features a ...

Adaptive reuse turns vacant offices and industrial buildings into housing. Incentives like historic and brownfield tax credits make projects viable. 43 North Real Estate’s “Marblery” and Labelon ...