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The Kwai, a 140-foot cargo ship, just made a 45-day round trip from Hawaii and back. It's load? About 96 tons of trash from a floating garbage patch the size of Texas.

There are many ways we celebrate during the holidays, and shopping for gifts and food is on most people’s to-do lists. A lot of the things we buy travel long distances to get to our doors, and a sustainability expert says it’s worth considering what all this abundance of buying does to our air and water.

Under current Virginia law, only the person who hits a deer can keep it and collection can only happen during deer hunting season.

When it comes to recycling, most of us want to do the right thing. But certain items can present challenges when trying to find the proper way to dispose of them. An event upcoming in Roanoke presents an opportunity for the disposal of one such category.

A small brigade of volunteers chopped up thousands of pounds of vegetables that might otherwise have landed in the dump. Celebrity chefs helped whip it into a meal tasty enough to get crowds to care.

The Environmental Protection Agency is launching an initiative to engage religious leaders of all faiths to reduce food waste. Many groups have already embraced the challenge as a moral imperative.

How can I find out if my plastic waste is really being recycled What makes some plastic recyclable and some not? Here are answers from the NPR correspondents working on "The Plastic Tide" series.

As much as a third of the produce grown on some farms is rejected because it doesn't meet beauty standards. But it's still tasty and healthy. One big firm is now telling growers: Give us your uglies.

The ingredients — think wilted basil, bruised plums, garbanzo bean water — sound less than appetizing. Whipped together, they're a tasty meal that show how home cooks can use often-tossed foods.

Running all the way through Dallas is a 6,000-acre stretch of massive oaks, bubbling springs and broad meadows. But the river running through it has many of the issues faced by other urban waterways.