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By Mar 6, 2021
Environment

Will we ever be able to recycle all our plastic?

It might be better to focus on limiting how much we use.
By Dec 24, 2020
Environment

Trim down on holiday waste this season

It’s the trashiest time of the year—but it doesn’t have to be.
By Apr 30, 2019
Environment

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

Never mind the Philippines—Canada has bigger trash problems.
By Jan 21, 2019
Environment

14 things you should never flush down the toilet

Remember the four Ps.
By Apr 20, 2018
Environment

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

Little changes can make a big difference
By Apr 20, 2018
Environment

Anyone can compost their food waste (and everyone should)

And it doesn’t have to smell.
By Apr 17, 2018
Environment

Scientists stumbled upon a plastic-eating bacterium—then accidentally made it stronger

Hungry, hungry enzymes.
By Jan 17, 2018
Fat Month

The grease recycling industry feeds on your city’s oily underbelly

While you're just sitting around causing fatbergs.
By Jan 8, 2018
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Seagulls are eating all of our garbage

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Environment

Guess how many giant patches of garbage there are in the ocean now?

The Great Pacific garbage patch now has a South Pacific cousin.