I’m a dedicated recycler. I fret when I see people throwing garbage in with soda cans and empty water bottles. I’ve even been ...

Each artwork, which consists of intricately arranged layers of items that would otherwise be thrown out, takes a month or ...

O’er the Wide and Plastic Sea” examines the intersection of institutional power and nature through compositions of repurposed ...

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Rodents have apparently gnawed clear through the dense plastic of the Big Apple ‘s supposedly “rat proof” new trash bins — but the city said the results show the containers are largely keeping the ...

Can trash be transformed into treasure? These artists are using discarded materials to create stunning art and raise ...

Hospitals have to use a lot of single-use plastics to deliver care for patients. In today’s episode, we look at how one ...

Gabriella Bass The plastic bins apparently had no chance ... “Evidence of rodents chewing through garbage cans is not necessarily a bad sign. It means the animal is stressed and exposing itself ...

Instead of buying a bottle of body wash, use bar soap, which has less packaging and is typically less expensive per use than ...

thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you probably contribute to. And these are just the bits of it we can see.

It’s the year 2025 and, by now, it is abundantly clear that we have a major plastic problem–garbage patches in the ocean, ...

When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...