Trash or Recycling? Why Plastic Keeps Us Guessing. Did you know the ♻ symbol doesn’t mean something is actually recyclable? Play our trashy garbage-sorting game. Then, read on about how we got here, ...

Note: An audio version of this story aired on NPR's Planet Money. Listen to the episode here. Laura Leebrick, a manager at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon, is standing on the end of its ...

Devina Rankin wants to charge cities and towns more to pick up their trash and recyclables, since Americans working from home are producing more waste—and it costs more to get rid of it. “We need to ...

The waste crisis is devastating our planet. A lot of the stuff we throw gets dumped in landfills. These massive waste disposal sites are often created by destroying forests or inhabitable lands. For ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Almost a decade ago, Kathryn Kellogg started storing all of her trash—every receipt, sticker, wrapper, and ...

The growing zero-waste community is radically slashing their waste output, while living more fulfilling lives. This quart jar holds all the waste produced in two years by Kathryn Kellogg of California ...