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Zero-waste is the goal, and recycling won’t get us there. The best way to solve our garbage crisis, Humes suggests, is to produce less of it in the first place.

Recycling the wrong things makes the whole system run slower. Here are seven takeout containers that don't belong in your recycling bin.

When cities launched recycling programs in the 1980s and 1990s, the theory was that the revenue from the recovered materials would offset the costs of collecting and separating the waste, but it ...