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Downtown Oaxaca city in southern Mexico. 
Environment
Oaxaca trash dump closure wreaks environmental havoc
Recyo
Environment
What Munich’s coffee houses learned about waste from beer culture
The Rumney Marsh, a haven to both birds and fish, sits in a highly industrial area north of Boston. For decades, the marsh's welfare has been in jeopardy due to its close proximity to an incinerator.
Residents worry Massachusetts waste incinerator is contaminating waterways
Arts, Culture & Media
Landfill Artist
Arts, Culture & Media
Junk Sculptor
Arts, Culture & Media
Special Guest: Niall Kirkwood
Volunteers crouch on the wet sand as they pick up trash from a beach near Mumbai's Versova jetty
Environment
This Mumbai lawyer inspired a massive beach cleanup
Najat Rabat and Yassine Mazzout used to work picking trash from a landfill outside Morocco's capital. Now they work together at a new recycling cooperative.
Jobs
These trash pickers used to have miserable jobs. Now they run their own recycling cooperative.
Garbage piles up in a riverbed near Beirut in late 2015. The region's almost year-long trash crisis prompted a political crisis, but also the emergence of nascent recycling programs.
Environment
Never waste a good waste crisis: Beirut’s trash woes give birth to recycling
A scavenger collects plastic for recycling in a river covered with rubbish in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 20, 2009.
Environment
5 countries dump more plastic into the oceans than the rest of the world combined
The Old Dominion landfill in Virginia. Photo by Bill McChesney/flickr/CC BY 2.0
Environment
Americans throw out way more trash than we previously thought
The “baby mop” is part of the Mmuseumm’s collection of unique inventions that have US patent-pending status.
Culture
To see life’s oddities, you have to vist an odd place — a museum in an elevator shaft
Trash in Kerala
Trash to Treasure
From Trash to Cash  ? and Museums
New Deal
Business, Economics and Jobs
Trash collection in Liberia