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Environment
The GOOD 30-Day Challenge: Waste Less
In July, we're getting less trashy by trying to reduce our garbage to one grocery bag per week. Waste not? We'll certainly try.
Environment
Eight Eco-friendly Halloween Costumes (and a Tip for Cheaters)
Tips for trick or treaters who don't want to be wasteful (or spend money) on a crappy wear-once Halloween costume. Plus: Tell us yours.
Culture
How Do Couples Decide Who Takes Out the Trash?
In heterosexual relationships, if the guy always takes out the trash, is the couple just repeating gender stereotypes?
Culture
"Every Single Thing You See Is Future Trash. Everything."
That's Robin Nagle, the New York City Department of Sanitation's anthropologist-in-residence, talking to The Believer about our relationship...
Environment
Garbage Covers Italy's Historic Spanish District in Naples
As you can see from these photos, the historic Spanish district in Naples is currently littered with garbage.
Environment
The GOOD "Waste Less" Wrap Up: We Got Wasted on Waste
July's attempt to give up on waste was perhaps the hardest one yet. Oh, how we struggled with those infernal iced coffees.
Environment
How to Do More for Your Seashore
In most of the country, beach season is fast approaching. (I can practically hear my SoCal colleagues snickering that it never took a break.) So...
Education
Annie Leonard's New Story of Stuff-like Series for Kids
The Story of Stuff treatment is applied to garbage, biodiversity, and...frogs. We bet you can't watch without smiling.
Cities
Picture: Trash Towers Over People As NYC Thaws
A great, gross visual shows you what was hiding under all that New York City snow.
Technology
Facebooking Trash Bins Shame the Wasteful
"BinCams"—garbage cans with cameras—help college students think twice about their waste by sharing trash pics on Facebook.
Environment
British Airways to Use Trash for Jet Fuel
British Airways plans to construct a fuel plant that will convert landfill waste into millions of gallons of jet fuel, which could reduce net...
Business
E-Waste PSA: High-tech Trash
If the transition from 386 to 486 resonates loudly in your heart strings, then you have some idea of how far we've come the past fifteen years...
Environment
Baby Steps to Producing Less Garbage: The Sigg (or Other Waterbottle)
This is not a new idea here, but it's been fairly revolutionary for me, so I thought I'd share: I emerged from this New Year's break with the...
