If you don’t understand the scale of a problem, how can you effectively take steps to address it? How can you know what is ...

A Rhode Island school is ditching plastic foam trays at lunchtime in favor of reusable stainless steel trays and sporks. It’s cut lunch waste 90 percent.

Anyone who has ever visited Bali was likely quick to notice the extreme amount of plastic pollution that can be found on any ...

“The most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe – and rightly so,” Alfred Lansing wrote of explorer Ernest Shackleton’s 1916 voyage across it in a small lifeboat. It is, of course, the Drake ...

The Ocean Cleanup founder Boyan Slat might ... proof trunk liners for one of their vehicles from plastic captured in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. There are no shortage of issues facing the ...

How Much Does a Garbage Collector Make? Garbage Collectors made a median salary of $43,540 in 2022. The best-paid 25% made $53,800 that year, while the lowest-paid 25% made $34,040. The ...

It's a disturbing thought: At this very moment, tiny crumbs of plastic are trickling through our bodies, a parade of unwelcome houseguests ready to take up residence in some tissue or organ.

An alarming study that had Americans tossing out their black plastic kitchen utensils, toys and to-go packages earlier this month overstated the concern, the researchers admit. But they still say ...

Andrew Reid, 19, set up the impressive holiday light display at his Long Island home using items that had been thrown away FOX 5 New York/Youtube A New York teenager is spreading holiday cheer in ...

SAN DIEGO — California state officials have deployed a new trash collection system in the ... that would otherwise flow into the ocean. Due to recycling regulations, the materials will be ...

About a dozen bears in the Tofino/Ucluelet area have learned how to break open bear-resistant garbage and recycling ... also figured out how to break the plastic lids of the bins, while others ...