Plastic-eating mushrooms are the new superheroes in combating the growing waste crisis
A new study from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in London says that fungi are capable of expediting the breakdown...
Cities around the world lay the groundwork for a zero-waste future
Cities around the world are pledging to reduce waste over the next 12 years in an effort to curb global warming...
Indonesia mobilizes 20,000 citizens to clean up plastic pollution
Indonesia wastes upward of 10 billion plastic bags every year, making it the second highest polluter of plastic...
The Kind Lab creates greener toothpaste that doesn't come in a tube
A tube of toothpaste is not the easiest thing to recycle. But what if you didn’t have to worry about recycling...
Thailand bans the import of e-waste
Over the next six months, Thailand will ban the import of 432 types of scrap electronics, or e-waste. E-waste includes...
Dominica makes historic pledge to combat plastic pollution
Many countries are fighting plastic pollution by enforcing harsher regulations such as special labels and plastic...
UK bag tariff halves plastic bag marine litter, reduces sales of plastic bags by 86%
Following a 5p charge per bag, the sale of plastic bags in the U.K. has fallen by 86 percent, according to reports...
This floating park in Rotterdam is made from recycled plastic waste
More than 1,000 square feet of plastic ultimately destined to pollute the ocean is getting a second lease on life...
UN releases first "state of plastics" report on World Environment Day
The United Nations has released its first-ever global plastics report on June 5th, World Environment Day. Well-timed...
Point Nemo, the most remote spot in the ocean, is plagued with plastic
Point Nemo is so remote that those on the International Space Station, hundreds of miles above Earth, are usually...
This groundbreaking new machine can recycle 220 pounds of diapers in a single hour
It takes hundreds of years for disposable diapers to decompose in landfills - but this new machine can turn 220...
Wet wipe pollution is clogging up riverbeds across the UK
The UK's obsession with wet wipes is completely changing rivers around the country. A London environmental group...
SpaceX Falcon 9 just rocketed a harpoon and net into orbit to hunt space junk
Human trash now litters space in the form of broken hardware and spacecrafts circling Earth. But the Surrey Space...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is growing at an exponential rate
Scientists recently found that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - now three times the size of France - is showing...
Airbus wants to harpoon a satellite and bring it back to Earth
The aeronautics company Airbus is currently testing a three-foot harpoon they hope will catch the nonfunctional...
Scientists create protein-packed mats that fight pollution
Researchers have created a mat composed of active proteins that have the ability to absorb chemical pollution....
Urban Rivers designs a multiplayer Trashbot Game to clean the Chicago River
The non-profit organization Urban Rivers is currently fundraising to deploy a remote-controlled, trash-cleaning...
Two men build a floating "Fatberg" island in Amsterdam
Friends Mike Thompson and Arne Hendriks have created a floating island made of fat, a "Fatberg" as they call it....
26,000 tons of radioactive waste sits at the bottom of Lake Powell
Located on the Arizona-Utah border, Lake Powell serves the drinking water needs of 40 million people in the Southwest...
California's "Butt Lady” picks up 1,000,000 littered cigarette butts in 3.5 years
Cigarette butts account for an estimated 1.69 billion pounds of trash each year - and a good number of them never...
Africa's first waste-to-energy plant to supply 30% of Addis Ababa's household electricity needs
Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa has had one landfill for around 50 years: the Koshe dump site. Serving over three...
HOW TO: Turn your food waste into clean energy
Each year, 1.3 billion tons of food ends up lost or wasted — 46 percent of the world’s garbage. While the global...
The Ocean Cleanup launches San Francisco base in Pacific trash-busting bid
The Ocean Cleanup Project seeks to dismantle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, guided by an ambitious design concept...
Hong Kong faces 'growing mountain of waste' in wake of China's trash ban
On January 1st, China banned imports of 24 kinds of trash - and the move is wrecking havoc on Hong Kong. Reuters...
Dubai announces plans for world's biggest waste-to-energy facility
Dubai plans to deal with their garbage in a bold new way: with the largest waste-to-energy plant in the world....
46 tons of Mardi Gras beads found clogging New Orleans catch basins
In New Orleans, clean-up crews have found 46 tons of Mardi Gras beads in the catch basins on St. Charles Avenue...
Humans have already dumped 400,000 pounds of trash on the Moon
Pollution isn't just Earth's problem anymore. Despite not having established a permanent lunar residency, humans...
redhouse studio is making a giant machine that recycles entire buildings
Did you know that buildings are responsible for 39 percent of the United States' carbon emissions? Architect Chris...
24-year-old Yemeni engineer invents mini biogas plant that turns trash to fuel
Some villages in war-torn Yemen still don't have electricity since the recent conflict started nearly two years...
Iceland supermarket commits to eliminating plastic within five years
Iceland Foods has committed to removing all plastic from its brand-name products within the next five years and...