The world’s tallest peak has a serious trash problem. Officials hope a revised cleanup plan could finally make a difference.
The small town of Plympton, Massachusetts, took the bold step of making everyone pay for what they toss.
Corporations sold Americans on the chasing arrows — while stripping the logo of its worth.
Our garbage heaps are rich in metals and other materials, but landfill mining is rare.
Home to our garbage, landfills are a crucible of chemical reactions and pollutants.
The plan would require city residents to separate leaves and other yard waste from regular garbage, in an effort to reduce rodent numbers.
Traditional burials and cremation aren't great for the environment. Human composting offers a different path.
New York recently became the latest state to legalize composting of human remains, a process pioneered by Recompose.
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill that would legalize composting human bodies after death.
Not even water bottles and milk jugs meet standards for recyclability, a new report finds.
A network of groups backed by the plastics industry claims polypropylene containers are “widely recyclable,” despite ample evidence to the contrary.
Compared to cremation, turning your body into mulch keeps a surprising amount of CO2 out of the atmosphere.
Changes are coming for Thilafushi, where trash has been dumped with abandon for the past three decades.
Fires are still burning in the Bhalswa landfill, exposing residents of Delhi to toxic smoke.
At least two members of a herd of endangered Asian elephants died at a Sri Lankan landfill over the weekend after eating trash.
Cities are required to start rolling out their composting programs this year, but a lot of hurdles remain.
The Energy Department is looking for towns, states, and tribes to step up to the plate and stash nuclear waste for just a bit.
A new law will mandate producers, not consumers, pay for the cost of recycling all that stuff.
One former employee of the Dunfermline warehouse told ITV there's "no rhyme or reason to what gets destroyed."
Our recycling system sucks in the U.S., thanks in part to polluters. How do we start caring again?
