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New Yorkers are putting their junk in bins. How they got there says a lot about how policy is made. Dominic Pino is the ...

The small town Plympton, Massachusetts, eliminated 305 tons of garbage a year by making everyone pay for what they toss.

Smokers around the world buy roughly 6.5 trillion cigarettes each year. That’s 18 billion every day. While most of a cigarette’s innards and paper wrapping disintegrate when smoked, not ...

Terrill Haigler, aka Ya Fav Trashman, lives by the credo that one man's trash is another's triumph. Why it matters: The ...

Policies aimed at reducing single-use plastic bags have led to a significant decrease in bags found on shorelines.