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Dumpster diver collects over $120,000 worth of items in garbage bins behind a retail store: “It’s criminal what they’re doing”

With each new find, he gets more and more excited

New York becomes 6th US state to green light human composting law

"Human bodies are not household waste", opposer says

Where The EU Exports Its Waste (infographic)

Turkey is the leader

Why can’t we throw all our trash into a volcano and burn it up?

Beyond temperature, there are other good reasons not to burn our trash in volcanoes

The Hellish E-waste graveyards where computers are mined for metal

Photographer Kai Löffelbein spent years documenting the multibillion-dollar e-waste industry and what he saw was disturbing

Malaysia returns 42 containers to UK in purge of “illegal” foreign waste

“If people want to see us as the rubbish dump of the world, you dream on”

Indonesia sends back waste containers to Western nations (photos)

Ping Pong!

Ocean Cleanup Project drags its fractured plastic-catching barrier in for repairs (photos)

Despite the latest setback, CEO Boyan Slat is adamant this is a speed hump rather than a roadblock

Ocean Cleanup system completed and ready to be towed out to sea (video-photos)

The team estimates a fleet of its trash-collecting systems can clean 50 percent of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch every five years

Europeans will have to recycle half of their waste by 2025

Industry and environmental organizations broadly welcomed the new rules