Green up the holiday aftermath: What to know about reducing waste

American household garbage increases by 25% over the holidays, but it doesn't have to tax the area's stressed trash disposal ...
KCRW

Is Recycling Rubbish? John Tierney, Adam Minter, Wes Thompson Sort Through the Issues

Americans are deeply committed to recycling —according to the EPA, in 2013, we generated about 254 million tons of trash and recycled and composted about 87 million tons. That’s a roughly one-third ...
NPR

Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic-makers used recycling as a fig leaf

The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers sort their trash so plastic packaging ...
The Conversation

Recycling: what you can and can’t recycle and why it’s so confusing

Matthew Derry does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
The Conversation

Burning waste is a dirty way to generate power – but it’s the least bad alternative until we fix recycling

Edward Randviir receives funding from Innovate UK and the Royal Society. He has previously consulted on waste management sites, including anaerobic digestion, in-vessel composting, and energy from ...