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A trash bin is overflowing with blue and green plastic bottles

Earthworms can break down bioplastic, for better or for worse

Takeout boxes on green backdrop

How to make your takeout order less wasteful

By Carla Delgado

Box of COVID-19 medical masks on wooden floor.

Your disposable COVID masks could be reborn as fuel

By Carla Delgado

Pile of plastic bottles and waste.

It is time to make plastic-recycling labels less confusing

By Carla Delgado

Clothing rack of colorful tops.

Does renting your clothes reduce fashion waste?

By Carla Delgado

An Apple MacBook's lithium-ion battery.

We need safer ways to recycle electric car and cellphone batteries

By Anuradha Varanasi

Two chemists pulling apart an old computer in a rare earth metal recycling experiment

Inside the high-powered process that could recycle rare earth metals

Person throwing COVID-19 disposable mask in trash can.

This new recycling system could keep COVID PPE out of landfills

By Sara Kiley Watson

Multicolored masks for COVID-19 hanging from clothesline.

What to do with your old cloth masks

By Sara Kiley Watson

Red toy truck carries a small recycled Christmas tree

What’s the most eco-friendly way to dispose of your Christmas tree?

By Charlie Wood

Gift wrapping presents in natural rustic theme brown kraft paper with string and ornaments on a dark blue rustic wooden table

The most eco-friendly wrapping paper is none at all

By Stan Horaczek

DARPA’s solution to the military’s plastic trash problem? Eat it.

DARPA’s solution to the military’s plastic trash problem? Eat it.

By Kelsey D. Atherton

a disposable face mask in a pile of wet fall leaves

Humans created an extra 8 million tons of plastic waste during the pandemic

By Kate Baggaley

Halloween treats can be a trick for the environment—but there are sustainable swaps

Halloween treats can be a trick for the environment—but there are sustainable swaps

By Margo Milanowski

Three mason jars with homemade fabric dye and some dyed shirts inside them. From left to right: purple, orange, and pink.

Make natural fabric dye with vegetable scraps

By Natalie Wallington

A blue recycling bin with a recycling symbol on it.

What do the numbers on plastic mean? And 3 other trashy questions, answered.

By Natalie Wallington

outdoors compositing pile with veggies

How to keep food, plastic, and fabric out of the landfill

By Jennifer Ball

Empty cups, both plastic and paper, take out containers, straws, and other trash sit in a multi-colored pile. Starbucks, Nathans, Dunkin Donuts, and Canada Dry logos are visible on some of the items.

Your compostable cups and containers aren’t reversing the plastic problem

By Lauren Leffer

Rows of recyclable plastic bottles

To shore up packaging recycling, Maine is making businesses foot the bill

By Sara Kiley Watson

Food wrapped in beeswax wrap

The truth about reusable kitchen essentials

By Angely Mercado

Microbes found in cow stomachs could help solve our plastic problem

Microbes found in cow stomachs could help solve our plastic problem

By Angely Mercado

What actually happens to the clothes you donate depends on where you live

What actually happens to the clothes you donate depends on where you live

Can zero-waste stores be affordable for everyone?

Can zero-waste stores be affordable for everyone?

By Angely Mercado

Where does your paper come from? The good and the bad news.

Where does your paper come from? The good and the bad news.

By Shaena Montanari

Host a sustainable affair with these environmentally-friendly tips

Host a sustainable affair with these environmentally-friendly tips

By Sara Kiley Watson

Raw fish on beach drying rack

Old fish bones could make the eco-friendly plastic we’ve been waiting for

By Shaena Montanari

Crumpled up paper waste

Modern paper use is wildly unsustainable. Here’s what you can do about it.

By Laurie David and Heather Reisman

Assorted fruits, mushrooms, vegetables and other food spread out on table

11 percent of food waste comes from our homes

By Sara Kiley Watson

Plastic water bottles and aluminum soda cans in a bin

Will we ever be able to recycle all our plastic?

By Candice Wang

Woman searching through rack of vintage second-hand thrift clothing.

Thrift shopping is an environmental and ethical trap

By Sara Kiley Watson

a boat captain tries to pull a plastic barrel from a debris island

A trip down the Ohio River reveals the oil and gas industry’s next big move

By Teake Zuidema/Nexus Media News

A bookshelf made out of a reclaimed wood pallet, full of books, with a chalkboard panel.

Turn an old pallet into a handy—and free—bookshelf

By Jose Mendoza

The finished cardboard robotic hand on someone's hand

Turn a boring box into a sweet working robotic hand

By Jonathan Adolph

Your pee could be the golden ticket to a greener world

Save money and protect the environment by repurposing your old outdoor gear

By Alisha McDarris

Boy Changes Temperature On Central Heating Thermostat Control Using Mobile Phone App

It’s not easy being green, but it doesn’t have to be expensive

Where to find cardboard boxes when you’re moving

Where to find cardboard boxes when you’re moving

By John Kennedy

Banning mini shampoos from hotels won’t really reduce plastic or save the environment

Banning mini shampoos from hotels won’t really reduce plastic or save the environment

By Yossi Sheffi/The Conversation

Make cufflinks from upcycled materials and look like a boss

Make cufflinks from upcycled materials and look like a boss

Never waste bread again

Never waste bread again

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

melted plasticware

Scientists are making progress with better plastic-eating bacteria

By Sarah Scoles

What kind of reusable bag is best for the planet?

What kind of reusable bag is best for the planet?

Plastic bags are still bad for the environment, despite misleading reports

Plastic bags are still bad for the environment, despite misleading reports

Inside the global fight over a 2,500-ton heap of garbage

Inside the global fight over a 2,500-ton heap of garbage

waste recycling machine

How to actually recycle

the remains of old crayons

How to recycle shoes, crayons, toothbrushes, and other random stuff

two contact lenses on a pink and blue background

Contact lenses don’t belong in your toilet

electronic waste

You throw out 44 pounds of electronic waste a year. Here’s how to keep it out of the dump.

By Whitson Gordon

In photos: A car’s journey from trash heap to brand-new engine

Even the clothes you donate probably end up in a landfill

Even the clothes you donate probably end up in a landfill

By Nell Durfee/Scienceline

You could be eating a side of e-waste with your takeout

You could be eating a side of e-waste with your takeout

11 easy ways you can help save the planet this Earth Day

11 easy ways you can help save the planet this Earth Day

By Rachel Feltman

Your old computer could be a better source of metals than a mine

Your old computer could be a better source of metals than a mine

By Mary Beth Griggs

Multi-colored plastic straws.

We suck at recycling straws—so maybe we should ban them

Humans have created 9.1 billion tons of plastic. Here’s how you can help stop the madness.

Where airplanes go to die—and be reborn

Where airplanes go to die—and be reborn

By Kate Baggaley

These caterpillars chow down on plastic bags

These caterpillars chow down on plastic bags

By Mary Beth Griggs

$A woman enjoys the natural light refracted by water in a bottle$

How to turn used plastic bottles into skylights and street lamps

By Jeremy Deaton

This stuff melts your crappy fast fashion into fabric stronger than cotton

This stuff melts your crappy fast fashion into fabric stronger than cotton

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

A blue pipe that connects a bathroom, sewage separation tanks, a sewage mixing tank, a filtration machine, a natural body of water, and a water filtration plant, showing the cycle of making sewage drinkable.

How to make sewage drinkable

By Sara Chodosh

Researchers are using tomato peels and eggshells to make tires

Researchers are using tomato peels and eggshells to make tires

By Marlene Cimons

How to recycle your phone no matter where you live

How to recycle your phone no matter where you live

How to recycle plastic at home

How to recycle plastic at home

By Meaghan Lee Callaghan

Used Coffee Grounds Can Clean Contaminated Water

By Knvul Sheikh