Mr. Clapp is a journalist and the author of “Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash,” from which this essay is adapted.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major reversal, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency said he will try to rescind $20 ...

In Germany, they have dumpsters at the edge of the grocery stores’ parking lots: One for brown glass, one for green glass, one for clear glass, one for approved plastics, one for approved paper, one ...

Lee Zeldin, Trump's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, said that the Biden administration purposely wasted ...

Follow Imaru Casanova deep underground with shares in mining companies. They're a leveraged bet, so they’re riskier than gold bars.

The waste and corruption is an insult right in our faces. Through the U.S. Agency for International Development, we’re giving $15 million in condoms to the Taliban and $447,000 to promote atheism in ...

Perpetua Resources, the mining company planning to dig in the mountains outside McCall, promises to clean up the site — including the damage done by decades of previous mining.

(Representational image) Officers from the BMC’s solid waste management (SWM ... said that he had yet to see the letters written by the government.

One prime example is gold. The price of gold per ounce soared past $2,700 in October as inflation and other economic concerns drove demand, while Treasury bonds began offering their highest ...

Whey is used to make a type of sponge that collects gold when e-waste is soaked in an acid bath. The cheese sponge method is not only creative but also effective. The value of the gold extracted with ...

Growing up in the long shadows of the Great Depression and the World Wars, my parent’s generation were obsessed with reducing waste; we should be too. What if avoiding waste was our primary ...