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The Hampton Roads Planning District Commission is finalizing a plan that outlines how to reduce the region’s contributions to climate change.

It's best to chop up and leave a thin layer of leaves in the grass. Rake excess amounts into a landscape bed or garden.

It's the brainstorm of a street artist, who wanted folks to pay more respect to the pickers who collect recyclable garbage that would otherwise pile up in landfills.

Lots of tasty, nutritious produce ends up in landfills because it doesn't meet retail beauty standards. Now Wal-Mart is testing sales of wonky apples and spuds in hundreds of Texas and Florida stores.

A Brooklyn waste treatment plant has become an unlikely lab for an ambitious effort to turn millions of tons of food scraps from New York City's apartments and restaurants into renewable energy.

The amount Americans throw away annually would fill a 100-story building 44 times, says Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. The USDA and the EPA have issued a challenge to cut that in half by 2030.

Local officials held the event to coincide with America Recycles Day.

Plastic from Canada that dates from the 1960s recently washed up on the shores of a Scottish island. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to David Warner from Orkney, Scotland who made the discovery.

Americans throws away nearly 1,800 pounds of trash each year. One Illinois University is teaching students recycling skills that will not go to waste.

Many trash haulers in Virginia provide single stream recycling – mechanically separating bottles, cans and plastic from other garbage, but residents of…