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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.

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.

Portsmouth, Suffolk and Chesapeake have all moved to a “one bin” approach through a new regional initiative.

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

When the parade is over, all those beads the crowd so eagerly called for seem to lose their shine. Rather than see the leftovers end up in a landfill, one New Orleans group collects and recycles them.

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation traces the story of a New Jersey town plagued by two generations of toxic waste dumping. Its author, Dan Fagin, talks about the origins of dumping in Toms River and its legacy today.

Protesters from a group that's translated as either "You Stink" or "You Reek" criticized the bid for being too expensive and the government for being too corrupt.

The fashion industry is one of the world's big polluters, but innovators are looking to circular design for solutions.

Mourners left flowers and plants after the 2011 Tucson shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded 13. Instead of sending the shrines to a landfill after they were taken down, volunteers sorted through everything, replanted what they could and composted the rest.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Romanian director Radu Ciorniciuc about his documentary ACASA, MY HOME. It's about a family living in an abandoned urban landfill.