Recycling

An Oregon man who accidentally threw $23,000 into a recycling bin was reunited with his money after the cash was spotted at a recycling facility in Northern California. The man from Ashland, Oregon, had realized he put the shoe box full of money into his r…

It is, evidently, not a nice job. But you do get to be alone, if that's your thing, with The Inventory, boxing things all day. This eBay seller gets into the nitty gritty of how he sources and sells individual items and it's surprisingly interesting how much …

There are about 22,000 large objects orbiting the Earth, including working and broken satellites and bits of old rocket from past space expeditions. If you include all the equipment dropped by astronauts while floating in space and the debris from colliding s…

The idea seemed simple: if you find yourself regularly ordering the same thing from Amazon coffee, laundry detergent, whatever why not replace the whole ordering process with a button you put somewhere in your house? Push a button, get a thing. And from that…

People in Japan donated their old phones to make 5,000 Tokyo 2020 Olympic medals

As the dramatic shutdown of major recycling company SKM this week has illustrated, recycling is not free. Householders in Australia pay council rates for a recycling and garbage service. This fee is largely based on the costs of collecting, sorting and proce…

ALMERIA, SPAIN: These idiots dumped a used refrigerator out in nature, and the cops made them go out and get it and dispose of it properly. Morons dump fridge in nature. police orders them to retrieve it. The guy in the video got fined 45K Euro, and the shi…

What's more groan-inducing than slicing open a bulky box and wading through mounds of plastic and paper only to find a small gadget inside? This plus the box-within-a-box phenomenon is a common experience for Amazon shoppers. Now the internet giant wants to …

A typical day would begin at 5:30 a.m., after a night of waking roughly every hour to attend to Jared or to ensure they were still safe. The family would find a restaurant or big box store they ofte…

The EPAs most recent census of U.S. waste tallied 262.4 million tons of new junk in 2015the weight of about 40 Pyramids of Giza, or 4.5 pounds per person per day. We can recycle about one-­quarter of what we toss, but rising costs and trade issues mean some m…