Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stacks of old bricks against an outdoor plastered wall. - Fotandy/Getty Images Composting is one of the best things you can do for ...

ST. LOUIS — Dennis Collins, Sr., has been organizing and stacking bricks to be reused after the May 16th tornado ripped them from a building his friend owns in Fountain Park. “The whole bricks that’s ...

Brick construction creates lasting materials but often ends in waste when buildings are torn down early. Engineers in Austria ...

Waste is built into our economy. Garry Cooper created a large-scale resource-sharing system to keep furniture, medical equipment and more out of... Reusing chairs, bricks, even lab equipment by ...

Southwest Ohio is a leader in upcycling its buildings. Housing solution: adaptive reuse. Look around and you'll see plenty of vacant or underutilized buildings. From office buildings to warehouses to ...

The team looks into the solution of adaptive reuse as a response to the housing shortage. The Brick by Brick team of solutions journalists looks at adaptive reuse as a response to the housing shortage ...

Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode Abandoned Places. Waste is built into our economy. Garry Cooper created a large-scale resource-sharing system to keep furniture, medical equipment and more out of ...

A businessman who played with Lego as a child has helped save 25 million colourful bricks from landfill by reselling them. Mike Lane spent his childhood building farm sets with his brothers where the ...