Garbage

Europe announced it will seek to ban the use of certain common plastic items, including plastic cutlery, straws, plates, swabs, and fishing gear.

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Re-assessing how much food we throw out.

• By James McWilliams

Alaska's capital city is surrounded by ocean and glaciers, with no roads in or out. Waste management? It's complicated.

• By Eva Holland

Last year, Simi Valley Landfill entered what is becoming a fast­-growing business of transforming fetid odors from decaying trash into fuel, a feat made possible by the miracles of modern chemistry and government subsidies.

• By Olga Grigoryants

You’re never going to reduce food waste with “solutions” that are inaccessible to most of us.

• By James McWilliams

Nail polish, batteries, hand sanitizer: You may not think of these regular household items as toxic, but they are, and they’re poisoning our water and food supplies.

• By Carmen Marriott

From plastic-eating mushrooms to the aerodynamics of hockey gloves, a roundup of unexpected findings from the study of marine trash.

• By Matt Skenazy