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Turning ocean plastic into sneakers

Jun 17, 2019
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In New York City, getting rid of joyless junk can be complicated and costly

by Leila Goldstein Feb 14, 2019
It's the urban underbelly of the Marie Kondo effect.
Manhattan’s Salvation Army on 46th Street has 20 trucks to pick up donations and two additional dump trucks to haul away unsalable items.
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United Kingdom council hires its own "garbage queen"

by Stephen Beard Dec 19, 2018
Brighton is getting creative with its waste disposal methods.
Cat Fletcher, Brighton's "Garbage Queen," stands outside of the Waste House, clad with carpet tiles.
Courtesy of Mimisse Beard
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China is drowning in a sea of cardboard — so is the U.S.

by Molly Wood, Stephanie Hughes, Jennifer Pak, and Shaheen Ainpour Feb 26, 2018
Online shopping comes with a lot of packaging, and that packaging is becoming a problem.
Chinese laborers load cardboard onto a truck to be recycled in the Dong Xiao Kou village in Beijing in 2014.
Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
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China wants nothing to do with America's trash

by Kai Ryssdal and Shaheen Ainpour Oct 17, 2017
It will no longer import recycled scrap from the U.S. So what do we do with it?
Scrap metal in Long Beach, California, waits to be shipped to Asia for recycling.
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2015: A Trash Odyssey

by , and Oct 30, 2015
Quartz and Marketplace find out littering exists in space, too.
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Making money off trash

by Jenny Ament Apr 3, 2015
Selling what others throw out
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How an $8,000 garbage bin actually saves taxpayers money

by Chris Farrell Sep 26, 2013
It turns out the government can do more with Big Data than just spy -- they can use it to save money, too.
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National parks take out the trash (cans)

by Kate Davidson Aug 22, 2013
Parks are increasingly translating 'Leave No Trace' into 'Leave No Trash Can.'
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Why only a third of our trash is being recycled

by Sarah McCammon Aug 5, 2013
More than 40 years after the “Crying Indian” campaign encouraged Americans to stop pollution, a new "Keep America Beautiful" hopes to boost recycling.
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The cost of junk on the ocean floor

by David Weinberg Jun 6, 2013
The Monterrey Bay Aquarium just released a new report on all the sea junk they've discovered over the past 22 years of underwater surveys.
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