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NW Iowa Little Sioux River (Getty Images/lynngrae)

Iowa floods bring risk of "fecal soup"

Marin Scotten
Pile of Worn Out Tires (Getty Images/Mint Images)

EVs have a tire-shredding problem

Paul Krantz - Grist
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More sustainable waste management

Michaela Barnett, Leidy Klotz, Patrick I. Hancock, Shahzeen Attari - The Conversation
Garbage, pollution (Getty Images)

Oregon bans PFAS in food containers

Joseph Winters - Grist
A woman depositing a plastic bottle in a recycling bin (Getty Images/Andrew Fox)

US cities want to send plastic to Mexico

Joseph Winters - Grist
Plastic bottles and polystyrene floating in sea (Rosemary Calvert)

Big Plastic pushes fake recyclables

Joseph Winters - Grist
People take photos of water filling the entrance of The Plaza Shops in Battery Park in New York on October 30, 2012 as New Yorkers cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The storm left large parts of New York City without power and transportation. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

Toxic waste is leaking into our water

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
Little Free Library – Take One – Leave One. (Independent Picture Service/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How to recycle unwanted books

Ashlie D. Stevens, Shane Tan
(Getty Images)

Clogging the system

Diane Peters - Undark
FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011, file photo, a shopper leaves the Gap store in Freeport, Maine. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach, File) (AP)

Fast fashion revolution

Valerie Vande Panne - Independent Media Institute
A volunteer of the NGO 'Canarias Libre de Plasticos' (Canary Islands free of plastics) carries out a collection of microplastics and mesoplastic debris to clean the Almaciga Beach, on the north coast of the Canary Island of Tenerife, on July 14, 2018. (Getty/DESIREE MARTIN)

Microplastics leaching into food systems

Nicole Karlis
(AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

(AP Photo/John Raoux) (AP)

Junk aluminum scam cost NASA $700M

Mike Wehner - BGR
(AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

Plastic is probably harming your health

Robin Scher - Independent Media Institute
(AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

Discontinuing recycling programs

Valerie Vande Panne - Independent Media Institute
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How Craigslist cuts waste

Suvrat Dhanorkar - The Conversation
Daniela Uribe with a mountain of cascara. (Photo courtesy of Lazy Bear Tea/Civil Eats)

Don’t call it food waste

Danielle Beurteaux - Civil Eats
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Would you go strawless?

Nicole Karlis
Ekoplaza’s plastic-free aisle. (Ewout Huibers/Civil Eats)

A zero-waste grocery grows in Brooklyn

Cathy Erway - Civil Eats
(Larry Benvenuti/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP)

Danger awaits sea turtles in the ocean

Pamela T. Plotkin - The Conversation
FILE-This Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014 file photo shows a large pile of washed-up trash, including old plastic bags, sits alongside the Los Angeles River in Long Beach, Calif. On Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014 Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation on imposing the nation's first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Josh Morgan,File) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Josh Morgan,File)

Finally, there are plastic ban bills

Valerie Vande Panne - Alternet
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Incinerating trash is not effective

Ana Baptista - The Conversation
In this Friday, Jan. 13, 2017 photo, a customer browses through used items at a flea market on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia. The waste from discarded electronic gadgets and electrical appliances has increased by two-thirds in East Asia over five years, posing a growing threat to health and the environment unless proper disposal becomes the norm. The United Nations University says China is the biggest culprit with its electronic waste more than doubling. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) (AP)

Mountain of smartphones kills

Stephen Wright
(Getty/Peter Macdiarmid)

The great garbage fire debate

Diane Stopyra
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