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Waste management

man with trash
Justice
‘We were treated as disposable beings’: Waste pickers in Colombia fought for their rights after 11 murders
landfill
Health
Trash sorters in Ghana face health and safety risks
China landfill
China announces a new ban on single-use plastics
Plastic beach pollution
Environment
‘Beyond the crisis point on plastic waste’: New bill is wake-up call, says senator
At the Wellesley recycling center, just west of Boston, residents drop their recyclables into 43 different sorting stations.
Environment
New Chinese policy is forcing people to think: Is there a better way to recycle?
Cody Marshall, with The Recycling Partnership, looks through a recycling bin in Lynn, Massachusetts. His organization is working with cities across the nation, helping them educate residents on how to recycle better.
Environment
As China gets tough on recycling, will America get cleaner?
plastic
Environment
Burn it or bury it? Europe ponders future as plastic waste piles up.
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
A worker walks past piles of plastic PET bottles at Asia's largest PET plastic recycling factory
Global Politics
The US wants China to reverse its decision to bar foreign garbage
Toronto Zoo resident Vishnu eats his breakfast. The zoo is hoping what happens next will be a big boost for them.
Technology
Toronto’s Zoo plans to turn its animal waste into electricity
Trash generated on land is flowing into the ocean at much higher rates than previous numbers suggest, according to a new study in the journal "Science."
Environment
Forget the floating Pacific garbage patch — new trash entering the oceans is much worse
A wind farm with 43 wind turbines generates electricity for the village of Feldheim, Germany.
Environment
A German village keeps the lights on with windmills and pig manure
A police car is seen smashed and overturned as demonstrators protest against the construction of a waste incinerator in Hangzhou, China.
Environment
What makes people overturn police cars in authoritarian China?
The CarbonLITE facility, which opened at the end of 2011, processes about 2 billion bottles a year. It's a closed loop recycling facility: plastic bottles are turned back into bottles to maximize recovery of the raw material.
Environment
China’s ‘Green Fence’ is cleaning up America’s dirty recycling
Environment
Cigarette butts beware: Vancouver is coming after you
Power From Food Scraps
Environment
Firm plans to turn table scraps into power in Massachusetts
Environment
Bullitt Foundation opens new building in Seattle that redefines environmentally-friendly
Environment
Sweden imports waste from European neighbors to fuel waste-to-energy program
Environment
Boston man launches urban composting program
Business, Economics and Jobs
Renewable energy from dog poop
Environment
Compostable products create recycling conundrum
Fighting burps helps the environment
Business, Economics and Jobs
How manure can save humanity
Business, Economics and Jobs
DIY: How to turn urine into fertilizer
Zero Waste Atlanta
Euro Trash Powers Sweden
Paper Made
Science Note: Cow Manure and Methane
Zero Waste Green Grocer
Environment
Waste Not-Composting Toilets in Haiti
Turning Waste to Fertilizer — Humanure
Welcome PCBs!
Emerging Science Note/Plasma Incinerator
Problems Underground
French Redesign Trash Burning
Redesigning Trash
Industry Waste Swap
Dakota Disaster
Medical Waste Incinerators Targeted
JAPANESE DIOXIN ON THE RISE
Victory at Ironbound
Oregon Bottle Bill
Hospital Incinerators: They May Be Making People Sick
Model Methane Dump
It’s Super-Compost…Fortified with Essential Microorganisms
Computerized Waste Exchange
New Life for Old Christmas Trees
The Legal Battle Against Environmental Racism
Recycling Sewage in Brazil
Yimby?
Latvia’s Love Canal
Science Note: Recycling Manure
Tiny House
From Trash to Cash  ? and Museums
Emerging Science Note/Garbage Fuel
Supermarket Compost
Factory Farm Rules
Waste Not, Want Not
Killer Compost