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Approximately 40% of the U.K.'s plastic waste was sent to Turkey last year, according to a Greenpeace U.K. report. This is equivalent to 210,000 metric tons of plastic waste. The report has established that a bulk of the...

Compared to the rest of the world, the waste and recycling stats in the U.S. just can’t compete. Although the U.S. is just 4 percent of the world’s total population, the country produces 12 percent of the total solid...

Fourteen Nepalese volunteers collected three tons of garbage from Mount Everest in the first two weeks of their clean-up. The government-sponsored initiative is an effort to reduce growing amounts of garbage on the world’s...

Have you ever heard of bioenergy? Or, have you ever wondered where your garbage goes once you throw it out? For many people — especially Americans — once their trash leaves the house, there is no more thought about where...

Olive Ridley baby turtles have officially returned to the beaches of Mumbai, and it is all because one of the world’s largest beach clean-up efforts...

The world produces 260 million tons of plastic every year, and 10 percent of it ends up in our oceans either degrading at a painfully slow rate or not degrading at all...

A devastating garbage landslide precipitated by heavy rainfall wounded six people and killed 16 in Maputo, Mozambique, The Guardian reported. The 42-acre Hulene dump — located in the impoverished neighborhood of Hulene...

Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa has had one landfill for around 50 years: the Koshe dump site. Serving over three million people, it's about as large as 36 football pitches, according to the United Nations Environment Program...

On January 1st, China banned imports of 24 kinds of trash - and the move is wrecking havoc on Hong Kong. Reuters describes a "growing mountain of waste" piling up in a city that recycles little of its garbage. Doug Woodring,...

Dubai plans to deal with their garbage in a bold new way: with the largest waste-to-energy plant in the world. Gulf News and New Atlas reported the government announced plans for a facility that will handle as much as two...

The Indonesian island of Bali recently declared a "garbage emergency" in response to the overwhelming amount of plastic waste that has floated ashore and spoiled pristine beaches. “When I want to swim, it is not really...

When you drop those bottles and plastic containers off to be recycled, do you know where they go? The United States exports around one third of its recycling, and almost half of that heads over to China...

A Swedish power plant northwest of Stockholm hopes to go fossil fuel free by 2020 - and they're turning to recycled wood and trash for alternatives, including discarded apparel from retail chain H&M...

Hurricane Irma left a mess of destruction in its wake. But in Florida, some of that trash will be put to good use - as electricity. Garbage will be burned in waste-to-energy plants, including one in Hillsborough County, where...

Why spend thousands of dollars on a Tesla Powerwall when you could build your own - for a fraction of the cost? This is a question many alternative energy enthusiasts have asked, and it is ultimately what has led hundreds...