waste

How hard can it be to sustain a zero-waste lifestyle? Host Simone Sullivan visited Stevie Van Horn, a woman who manages to keep down years of her landfill waste inside a mason jar.

San Francisco has one of the most progressive waste management programs in the US. But for the city, trash is just the beginning.

Conservation scientists says the shores of Henderson Island in the South Pacific have the highest density of plastic debris ever recorded.

NYC has the largest sanitation department in the world, generating almost 10,000 tons of waste per day. 26 years after this PSA first aired the issue persists.

An estimated 113 million tons of coal ash are produced annually in the US, and stored in almost every state—some of it literally in people's backyards.

In the city of Naples and the surrounding countryside of Campania, Italy, the Mafia has controlled the waste-management industry for decades.