recycling

Workers in a dark building sort trash from a conveyor belt.

Inside the long war to protect plastic

Single-use plastic is clogging oceans and landfills. The industry that makes it has waged a decades-long campaign to keep it on the market.

Inside the long war to protect plastic
Rainbow scarab beetle

Dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way and other facts about ‘nature’s recyclers’

Dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way and other facts about ‘nature’s recyclers’
concord water

Here's a small town's advice for cities considering a plastic water bottle ban

Here's a small town's advice for cities considering a plastic water bottle ban
Coffee pods

Germany's second largest city just says 'nein' to coffee pods

Germany's second largest city just says 'nein' to coffee pods
Justin Bettman and Gözde Eker animate their sets with actors hired through a local casting website. After they’ve staged their photo, they leave the set up for passersby to explore, photograph, rearrange or selfie. This living room was the first set they

Here's how you can find a bathroom, or a living room, on the streets of New York

Here's how you can find a bathroom, or a living room, on the streets of New York
Agbogbloshie, Ghana in 2012.

Here's how to keep that old cell phone you're about to toss from becoming toxic e-waste in a developing country

You've seen the new iPhone 6. You want one. You buy one. So what do you do with your old iPhone to make sure it doesn't end up in some e-waste toxic pile in West Africa? We've got a few recommendations from an e-waste expert.

Here's how to keep that old cell phone you're about to toss from becoming toxic e-waste in a developing country

Cigarette butts beware: Vancouver is coming after you

The lowly cigarette butt may seem an awfully small target for a major environmental campaign. But in Vancouver, there are a lot of them. And the town's solution, if successful, may be heading to a city near you.

Cigarette butts beware: Vancouver is coming after you

Commentary: Re-vamp, Re-use, Re-run

Commentary: Re-vamp, Re-use, Re-run

Architects Samuel Mockbee and Andrew Freear on the Art of Recycling

Architects Samuel Mockbee and Andrew Freear on the Art of Recycling

Mel Chin's Revival Field

Mel Chin's Revival Field
The World

Dumpster-Diving for Fashion

Dumpster-Diving for Fashion

Architects Samuel Mockbee and Andrew Freear on the Art of Recycling

Architects Samuel Mockbee and Andrew Freear on the Art of Recycling