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Downtown Oaxaca city in southern Mexico. 

Oaxaca trash dump closure wreaks environmental havoc

Environment

The closure of Oaxaca’s trash dump in October is wreaking havoc on the environment. As world leaders gather for the COP27 climate conference, Oaxaca’s trash problems indicate just how complicated climate protection can be at the local level.

Grocery store owner Gilles Robin works on his fruits vegetable display in Levis Que, Canada

Apps help cut food waste and costs in Canada as prices rise

Food
Over 30,000 people trade in used clothing at Kantamanto market, Accra, Ghana.

How the West’s obsession with fast fashion compounds an environmental nightmare in Ghana

Environment
A Chinese girl looks upon a table full of food during a "1,000 people dumpling feast" in Liuminying village on the outskirt of Beijing, China, Jan. 27, 2017.

China’s ‘Operation Empty Plate’ targets food waste

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

Inside the long war to protect plastic

Pushing plastics
Recyo

What Munich’s coffee houses learned about waste from beer culture

Environment

Take-out coffee cups are a popular American import that are filling up the country’s trash bins. Now there’s an effort in Munich to replace throwaway cups with cups you borrow and return, inspired by the longstanding practice at the city’s famous beer gardens.

Plastic waste floats off the coast of Roatan, Honduras on September 7, 2017.

Underwater photographer captures vast garbage patch off the coast of Honduras

Environment

These “trash islands” have been captured in images by photographer Caroline Power, who lives on the Honduran island of Roatan.

Volunteers crouch on the wet sand as they pick up trash from a beach near Mumbai's Versova jetty

This Mumbai lawyer inspired a massive beach cleanup

Environment

He couldn’t stand by while his beloved childhood landscape piled up with trash.

Garbage piles up in a riverbed near Beirut in late 2015. The region's almost year-long trash crisis prompted a political crisis, but also the emergence of nascent recycling programs.

Never waste a good waste crisis: Beirut’s trash woes give birth to recycling

Environment

Household recycling was virtually unknown in Lebanon until Beirut’s trash crisis began last year. That’s when the region’s only landfill shut down, people started dumping trash wherever they could, and one activist saw an opportunity for people to think differently about their waste.

Bin of food waste

Around the world, a focus on sending less food to landfills

Food

Millions of people around the world go hungry. But the problem isn’t really having too little food — it’s wasting too much food, and sending too much food to landfills.