Sorting your trash and recycling is common practice: break down the cardboard boxes, separate the compostable material and plastics and put them into the correct containers, put the trash on the curb, ...

Richer countries often dispose of trash by paying someone else to make it their problem. And trying to recycle plastic doesn’t always help the planet. February 28, 2025 The following is an excerpt ...

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 2, 2025 / The world doesn’t have a waste problem because it creates too much waste. It has a waste problem because it can’t see what it creates.

Plastic waste is an exploding global problem, with minimal recycling resulting in incineration as a common disposal practice. Shipments of plastic products and plastic waste from the Global North to ...

This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese ...

This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. This is the fourth article in the ongoing series exploring ...

In 2022, households around the world wasted 631 million tons of food, the equivalent of 1 billion meals each day. This staggering number comes with heavy costs for household budgets, global hunger and ...

Children play in a pile of scrap plastic in a village in East Java, Indonesia, while their mother nearby spends the day picking through it for tiny pieces of cardboard to sell back to the paper mill.