The “freshman 15″ is something that all new college students want to avoid. So how can students protect their weight and the planet at the same time? Take away cafeteria trays.

According to the Sustainable Endowments Institute, a research organization that tracks the sustainable practices of 300 colleges and universities with the largest endowments, 126 of these schools currently have either cut out trays completely from their dining halls, or they have dedicated certain days as “trayless days.” This is all in an effort to reduce waste, conserve energy and water, and to save money at the schools.

The largest retailer of consumer electronics has just started a trial e-waste recycling program in over 117 stores across 8 states.

Best Buy, which supplies a huge portion of the electronics waste that ends up in our overcrowded landfills, has finally succumbed to the pressure of environmentalists…

According to the EPA, Americans discard about 2 million pounds of electronic waste (e-waste) every year, but that’s nothing compared to the 50 million pounds that are produced by the entire world.

To battle the e-waste problem, the U.S. Postal Service is working with recycling company Clover Technologies Group to develop a free national collection program for small electronics…

A new project financed by the government of Norway and the Global Environment Facility will have inmates at an African prison working towards purifying human waste and producing biogas to reduce carbon emissions.

This is one of a series of projects created by the Addressing Land-Based activities in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO-LaB) initiative, which aims to tackle problems that degrade marine and coastal environments…

If you’ve ever wanted to get others more involved in your recycling efforts at home, work or school, then I’ve found a great site that offers tons of great containers for pretty much anything that can be recycled!

Providing recycling bins for everything from paper and ink cartridges to bottles and cans, RecylingBin.com is the perfect way to promote the preservation of the environment…

It’s not hard to see why college students are notorious for accumulating tons of trash both in and out of their dorm rooms.

There wasn’t a week that went by when I was in college that I didn’t see fast-food containers, packets of ketchup, empty paper towel rolls, soda cans, half-empty bags of Doritos, plastic CD wrappers or Chinese take-out containers lying in random piles in someone’s room…

When I think of worms I visualize icky and squirmy creepy crawlers that are great to be used as fish bait and to feed to birds, but not so great when they form massive piles in the street after it rains. And when I hear the word ‘garbage’ I automatically think of that foul-smelling junk that used to accumulate in my next-door-neighbor’s dorm room. So what happens when you put these two tainted things together? Well, for two former Princeton University students it means…