Burning plastic as fuel for cooking and heating releases toxic chemicals into the air and contaminates food. Yet this is ...

In the r/Anticonsumption subreddit, one user's unconventional art habit is earning widespread appreciation. The user posted ...

"We're the ones that they knock down and we get up again." It was a daunting cleanup operation, but some 25,000 volunteers answered the call to remove more than 400,000 tonnes of flood waste from ...

The Jacobs School in Hull unveils a permanent art installation of sea creatures made from brightly colored ocean trash ...

Flood was chief curator at the Walker Art Center for a decade from 1995, where he curated shows on the Young British Artists, ...

Mr. Clapp is a journalist and the author of “Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash,” from which this essay is adapted. In the closing years of the Cold War, something strange started to ...

Residents on the southwest side of Detroit are left with major destruction to clean up after hundreds of homes were flooded by Monday's water main break.

Buried deep in a Welsh landfill, beneath layers of years-old garbage, there is a hard drive that holds the key to almost $800 million in bitcoin – or so James Howells believes, after ...

One thousand years ago, people along Israel’s Mediterranean coast dug deeply enclosed plots in the sand, filled them with 80,000 tonnes of trash and used the fertile soil that formed for farming ...

An exhibit combines talents in sculpture and painting, incorporating commentary on the degradation and instability wrought by ...