Imagine buying three gallons of milk at the store, driving home and pouring one of them down the sink. Or ordering three pizzas, then just dumping one of them into the garbage can. That’s not just a ...

In the late 1940s, following wartime-driven innovation, the mass production of inexpensive plastics revolutionized American life. For the first time, plastic toothbrushes, bottles, kitchenware, and fu ...

US Cities Look To New AI Tools To Boost Recycling. A great idea in theory, recycling is a pain in practice - a dirty job that ...

Henry Gabriel, Recycling Program Branch Chief for the City & County of Honolulu, joins producer/host Coralie Chun Matayoshi to discuss what goes in the blue bins, where our e-waste goes, where to ...

It may sound like the stuff of sci-fi movies, but diverting food waste from the landfill and converting it into electricity has become a real thing. William Brangham visited Ben & Jerry’s Vermont ice ...