Picture a two-lane highway cutting past dairy barns, paper mills, pine woods, and lakes that look like spilled silver in the late sun. That mix of farms, factories, and small towns is the stage where ...

The landlord refused to renew its the 12-year lease of the Delta Park redemption center after reports of open drug use and ...

The Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative is closing its bottle drop center in North Portland’s Delta Park Center in July, due to concerns from nearby businesses about homeless people ...

Seeking an affordable and inspiring way to make art, the members of Antigo Visual Arts are turning recycled materials intro colorful works of art at the ...

Instead of treating plastic purely as waste, new research shows that it can be transformed into something useful — acetic ...

Wonderfil has partnered with UC Santa Cruz, Whole Foods and others to allow customers to refill bottles of soap, detergent and shampoo in their containers of choice in a fully automated process.

“This is also great if you’re going out of town for a few days." Gardener shares clever trick to reuse old wine bottles when gardening: 'They work the same' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Glass bottle stoppers are gorgeous home goods that often don't get as much use as they should, but you can repurpose them as ...

Simple DIY projects can give your kitchen the kind of personalized charm that money simply cannot buy — plus you get to keep ...

From the kitchen to your desk to the garage, empty Swiffer containers make surprisingly useful organizers and DIY projects despite their basic shape.

I’m a borderline hoarder of all materials that can be repurposed for something artistic. It sounds great until you have piles of stuff and overflowing drawers of paper scraps, canvases, fabric ...

The 75th anniversary of the BIC pen is a reminder of how our economy quietly shifted from refillable or otherwise reusable goods to throwaway single-use products ...