Waste. Garbage. Trash. There's way too much of it. Recycling might not be much better and could be worse. Then what's the solution and how do we play a part in it? Learn more about what happens when we throw things away. This history and future of trash is more complicated than it looks.
How one organization changed the American public's relationship with waste and who is ultimately responsible for it.
We’re entering the biggest shopping season of the year. For many people, that means online shopping — packages piled on doorsteps, delivery cars and vans whipping down streets. But what do we do with...Show More
The vast majority of our plastic isn’t being recycled. It might be time to consider lighting it on fire. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Where does your recycling go? In most places in the U.S., you throw it in a bin, and then it gets carted off to be sorted and cleaned at a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF). From there, much of it is ...Show More
In this introduction to the Plastisphere podcast, Anja takes the listener on a journey back in time, from a remote plastic beach on the Big Island of Hawaii to the factory of a big chemical producer m...Show More
Plastic bags are no boon to the environment — but banning them might be worse.
Should we reuse and refill plastic packaging to limit the amount being thrown away? Nick Holland looks at different ways people are trying to make this happen. One idea is to take used containers ba...Show More
For 30 years, oil companies convinced the public that all their plastic trash could be, and would be, recycled, when they knew it wasn't true.
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This was so good. I’m so mad that how we learned to throw plastic in the garbage and not is due to corporate interests all around. All of our plastic consumption and behaviours were due to education c...Show More