New reports tracking the efforts to reduce plastic waste show some companies are making slow but steady progress to cut harmful plastics and increase reuse and recycling, but the world is still "off ...

On average, every person worldwide generates about 8 kilograms of electronic waste annually, with significant regional variations. Europe leads in e-waste generation with approximately 17 kilograms ...

Picture a plastic shopping bag that some busy customer picks up in the checkout line of a store—say, the British supermarket Tesco. That shopper piles her groceries into the bag, takes it home to a ...

E-waste, which refers to discarded electrical or electronic devices, is the fastest growing domestic waste stream in the world, and it is highly toxic, threatening public health. Much of this e-waste, ...

Across the world, urbanization affects how food is grown, distributed and consumed, and cities are primary drivers changing ...

The world is miserable at recycling plastics. Currently, just 10–15% of the plastic waste we generate annually is recycled — with the rest incinerated, buried in landfill or dumped as litter 1, 2. A ...

Last Friday, a group gathered inside a building in East London, holding an unusual medley of used goods, from tattered teddy bears and old shoes to an elegant but broken vintage blender. These people ...