If you order anything online, it usually comes in plastic packaging. Even if you buy goods from the bulk section at your grocery store, you’re probably using plastic bags. This creates a lot of trash, ...

In 2021, filmmaker and activist Ricardo Gomes posted a video of a "trash tsunami" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The clip went viral overnight thanks to Kelly Slater.

The Secret Life of Trash. Author: Richard E. Meyer. Publish date: Jan 1, 2011. ... They point out that sending trash overseas eliminates waste processing jobs in the United States. U.

The entire multibillion-dollar trash economy “operates on the periphery of legality,” said Dan Piepenbring in Harper’s.. “It was built on the literal ashes of the toxic-waste disposal ...

But once that trash hits the curb, it’s someone else’s job to pick it up. And America produces a lot of trash: According to the Environmental Protection Agency, Americans generate 254 million ...

Sharona Shnayder is a Nigerian and Israeli climate activist and founder of Tuesdays for Trash. 20-year-old spearheads global movement to clean up trash: 'It's so easy for people to ignore this crisis' ...

In 2021, filmmaker and activist Ricardo Gomes posted a video of a "trash tsunami" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The clip went viral overnight thanks to Kelly Slater.

Bonk! You’ve tossed your soda can into a recycling bin and asked yourself: What landfill will that end up in? This futile feeling is what motivated us to follow the contents of a blue bin.

All around the world, individuals and organizations are fighting against plastic pollution to protect our ocean and our health. In Brazil there are more than 80 organizations lobbying and ...