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Plastic bottles, food scraps and cardboard boxes don’t just disappear once tossed in the garbage. They might be out of sight, but they’re not out of mind. Instead, they wind up in landfills or foul ...

When she was 15, Ava Langridge watched a YouTube video that explained how environmental activist Lauren Singer fit four years of trash into a 16-ounce mason jar. Inspired, the Bay Area teen embarked ...

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 ...

It was a pleasant summer day along the waters off the coast of Guanacaste, Costa Rica when marine biologist Christine Figgener captured the heartrending video that sparked the movement to ban plastic ...

It’s not every day that you see the words “zero waste” and “climate” in the same sentence. Zero waste practitioners, both individuals and civil society organizations, vie for individual lifestyle ...