Americans are deeply committed to recycling —according to the EPA, in 2013, we generated about 254 million tons of trash and recycled and composted about 87 million tons. That’s a roughly one-third ...

The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers sort their trash so plastic packaging ...

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The Social Responsibility Framework is designed to help waste pickers, the informal workers who help keep tons of plastic from washing into the world's oceans. There are about 20 million waste pickers ...

The phone or computer you’re reading this on may not be long for this world. Maybe you’ll drop it in water, or your dog will make a chew toy of it, or it’ll reach obsolescence. If you can’t repair it ...

TACOMA — Faded kiddie pools at summer's end. Tangled Christmas lights after the holidays. Rotting corn cobs after the Fourth of July. The massive mounds of rubbish piled within Waste Management's ...