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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.

Taken together, the findings mean that bag bans and fees aren’t a plastic panacea but do matter. “These plastic bag policies ...

After some changes in trash accessibility in the town of Silverton, some local restaurant owners are fighting to have things ...

Trump's directive banning signage he would deem unpatriotic has left free speech advocates in disbelief, wondering how park ...

Ole Ginnerup Schytz, an engineer in Denmark’s sleepy Vindelev agricultural area, had used a metal detector only a handful of ...

One reader is concerned about the film peeling, making the signs harder to read. Amy Bentley shares the details.

Bergen isn’t the only city making the most of these vacuum-like trash removal systems. Around 200 cities have adopted the idea, including Seoul, Stockholm, and Qatar.

The amount of trash flowing into the world's oceans is worse than thought—eight million tons a year, says new study. A plastic bag floats in the sea off the Philippines. Ocean plastic has turned ...