Recycling

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…

GHAZIPUR LANDFILL, IndiaAcross India, from poor villages to expensive residential areas of cities, millions of trash pickers are at work to collect what other people dispose. They are called raddiwalas, ragpickers, scavengers and waste managers. Some go door-…

The problem began last year when China, the world's largest recyclable processor, stopped accepting most American scrap plastic and cardboard due to contamination problems, and a glut of plastics overwhelming its own processing facilities. Historically, China…

For people who appreciate a high-quality cup of coffee but dont have the patience for time-consuming brewing methods like pour-over and cold-brew, a pod coffee machine can be a wonderful solution. Gone are the days when your only instant option was a gurgling…

I sometimes think that if you could look in the safe behind Jeff Bezos desk, instead of the sports almanac from Back to the Future youd find an Encyclopedia of Retail, written in maybe 1985. There would be Post-It notes on every page, and every one of those n…