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Downtown Oaxaca city in southern Mexico. 
Environment
Oaxaca trash dump closure wreaks environmental havoc
Grocery store owner Gilles Robin works on his fruits vegetable display in Levis Que, Canada
Food
Apps help cut food waste and costs in Canada as prices rise
Over 30,000 people trade in used clothing at Kantamanto market, Accra, Ghana.
Environment
How the West’s obsession with fast fashion compounds an environmental nightmare in Ghana
A Chinese girl looks upon a table full of food during a "1,000 people dumpling feast" in Liuminying village on the outskirt of Beijing, China, Jan. 27, 2017.
Food
China’s ‘Operation Empty Plate’ targets food waste
Workers in a dark building sort trash from a conveyor belt.
Pushing plastics
Inside the long war to protect plastic
Recyo
Environment
What Munich’s coffee houses learned about waste from beer culture
Plastic waste floats off the coast of Roatan, Honduras on September 7, 2017.
Environment
Underwater photographer captures vast garbage patch off the coast of Honduras
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
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
Bin of food waste
Food
Around the world, a focus on sending less food to landfills
An immigrant laborer working in a landfill on Thilafushi, the island used for waste disposal in the Maldives.
Environment
An island of toxic trash plagues the Maldives
Dr. Jeff Wilson, otherwise known as Professor Dumpster, resides in a modern dumpster behind the women’s dorm at Huston-Tillotson University.
Environment
‘Professor Dumpster’ has turned a big trash bin into a tiny home
Business, Economics and Jobs
America’s waste winds up in poorest countries
Environment
Group of scientists argue plastic should be treated as hazardous waste
Development & Education
With global population marching toward 7 billion, a problem: Where’s the food?
Environment
Real life Wall-E: Robots that recycle
Business, Economics and Jobs
‘Green’ grocery store lets you package your own food
Trash in Kerala
Environment
‘New’ House in England to be Made Entirely from Waste Materials
Coal Byproduct, Hazardous Waste?
The Living on Earth Almanac
Green Art
Vermont & Nuclear Transport
Lebanon: Toxic Waste Dumping Ground
Planetary Quiz
GOLDMAN PRIZE: AN ORGANIZER IS REWARDED
New York City: Garbage Down the Drain
Green Auto Body Shop
Green Auto Body Shop
Apartheid’s Environmental Legacy
Good for the Environment and Good for Workers
It’s Super-Compost…Fortified with Essential Microorganisms
Industrial Cleanup’s Double Standard
Billions of Butts
Navy Trash Dumping
Leather Company Greens Up it’s Act
Computerized Waste Exchange
Cement Factories Burn Hazardous Waste
Toxic Waste Traffic Hits Romania
Yimby?
Superfund Super Slow?
Latvia’s Love Canal
Science Note: Recycling Manure
Solving Nuclear Waste
Coal Ash Controversy
Down in the Dumps
Another Dirty Side of Coal
E-waste Youth Activist
Waste Not, Store Not
Toxic Delivery
The State of the Environment
Whistleblower Faces the Ax
Safer Schools
Waste Not, Want Not
Toxic Exports
Nova Scotia Compost
Technology Update
Environment
America’s waste winds up in poorest countries
Environment
Is the oil spill debris in landfills hazardous to our health?
Environment
Tennessee struggling to confront impact of coal ash spill