Take a look inside your garbage can. How much garbage does your family throw away each day? Each week? Where does all of that trash go? It's tempting to think that the trash we throw away actually ...

The great thing about being both a writer and an artist is that each profession gives me a way to find out things I want to know. Many of us have read the horrifying statistics — 90% of plastics are ...

If there’s one thing Americans enjoy more than buying stuff, it’s not recycling that stuff when we’re done with it. We’ve put together a by-the-numbers look at this country’s expanding waste line. 4.4 ...

Some of your readers have protested the city's new trash-collection fee. Although nobody likes paying more for services, we shouldn't blame the government for facing facts: Landfill space is shrinking ...