“Taking a plastic bottle and turning it into part of a pair of sneakers that after a year will be buried or burned is not ...

Instead of throwing away those plastic bags from the grocery store, discover how to turn them into both decorative and useful ...

The new law, which goes into effect Jan. 1, will overhaul a 2012 county law on plastic and paper bag use. County officials ...

Instead of tossing plastic bags in the trash, use them around your home. Learn some of the most useful ways to repurpose plastic grocery bags. Think twice before tossing those plastic bags after ...

The police said a man handed over a statue that he said he found in a plastic bag among trash bins. By Christine Hauser On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with ...

Ancient statues have also been found in trash before in other parts of Europe. In 2023, a Roman-era statuette of Venus was discovered in a trash dump in Rennes, France. That same year, ancient bronze ...

Barry Rosenthal started collecting plastic garbage on a New York shoreline. His photographs reveal the variety of water-borne trash. Rosenthal chose oddly shaped plastic objects for this composition.

The discovery of a 2000-year-old headless statue from the Hellenistic period has prompted Greek police to investigate.

A 2016 behavioral economics study found that when consumers think their waste might be recycled, they worry less about the amount of trash they generate and produce more of it.

Nearly three years into New Jersey’s plastic bag ban, residents continue to collect ... “From the macro scale as seen in mounds of trash in landfills, along roadways, and in waterways and ...