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Ask Us Anything: Why can’t we burn our trash in volcanoes?
Will we ever be able to recycle all our plastic?
Once you know what happens to food you leave outdoors, you’ll stop doing it
Your guide to a Thanksgiving dinner without food waste
Products to reduce the amount of garbage in your life
Where to find cardboard boxes when you’re moving
Money, shoes, poop, and other highlights from the 796 items we’ve left on the moon
Scientists are making progress with better plastic-eating bacteria
We waste 40 percent of the food we grow—here’s where it goes
Inside the global fight over a 2,500-ton heap of garbage
How to keep raccoons and possums away from your house
How to actually recycle
14 things you should never flush down the toilet
We trained crows to pick up garbage, but can we teach ourselves?
Your regular reminder that humans still waste way too much food
Plastic junk spews greenhouse gases, just like cows and cars
You throw out 44 pounds of electronic waste a year. Here’s how to keep it out of the dump.
Eleven easy ways you can help save the planet this Earth Day
Anyone can compost their food waste (and everyone should)
Scientists stumbled upon a plastic-eating bacterium—then accidentally made it stronger
The great Pacific garbage patch is even trashier than we thought
The grease recycling industry feeds on your city’s oily underbelly
Seagulls are eating all of our garbage
Hold onto your butts: Don’t let dogs get stoned on your leftover weed
Guess how many giant patches of garbage there are in the ocean now?
Humans have created 9.1 billion tons of plastic. Here’s how you can help stop the madness.
This remote island in the South Pacific is covered in 18 tons of our trash
Trashed electronics are piling up across Asia
Storks Are Changing Migration Patterns To Lunch At Landfills
An Orbiting Garbage Collector That Eats Space Junk To Fuel Itself
Flexible Medical Sensors Made From Chewing Gum
Robots Are Coming For The Garbageman’s Job
Plastic Waste Could Fuel Your Car One Day
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Five Trillion Pieces Of Plastic Are Floating In An Ocean Near You [Interactive]
Is It Possible For New York City To Have Zero Waste?
The World Is Throwing Out Billions Of Dollars Along With Its Electronic Waste
Researchers Find Just How Much Plastic We’re Putting Into The Ocean
Where Do Recycled Electronics Go?
Survey Finds Trash In The Remotest Ocean Floors
Where Plastic Goes
The Garbage Man
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A Waterwheel That Picks Up Floating Trash
Public Trash Cans That Report When They’re Full
Sea Chair Project Collects Ocean Plastic Garbage to Make Stylish Sitting Stools
In Hong Kong, Starbucks Biorefinery Turns Stale Pastry and Coffee Grounds Into Plastic
Plastic-Eating Underwater Drone Could Swallow the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Polar-Mounted Laser Could Zap Space Junk, Protecting Satellites and the Space Station
Islands of Garbage, Washed In By Rain, Threaten to Overrun China’s Three Gorges Dam
One Man’s Giant Pacific Garbage Patch Is Another’s Beautiful Island Nation
Five Ideas To Fight Space Junk
Dustbot Comes When You Call It, to Pick Up Your Garbage and Take It Away
Beijing Deploys Giant Deodorant Cannons to Freshen Up City Landfill
The Prophet of Garbage