Landfill waste

Award-winning filmmaker Alison Teal, 27, from Hawaii, visited Thilafushi – or Trash Island - an artificial island created as a municipal landfill situated to the west of Malé.

Eventually, items we cannot use any more become waste. Most waste items end up in a landfill.

America's food waste problem is a national issue, but small steps can make a difference.

BBC Earth tells you all about about where your returned goods end up and what can be done to combat this unnecessary and damaging waste.

Download this free HD photo of pollution, plastic, waste, and albanie by Antoine GIRET (@antoinegiret)

Photo about the bulldozer buries food and industrial wastes. Image of rubbish, dump, sanitary - 8251562

From an idea at his home in Frisco, Texas to being a Nasdaq-listed company, Brian Dick, CEO of Quest Resource Management Group (QRHC), achieved entrepreneurial success by innovating a $55 billion U.S. industry and capturing the interests of the world's largest retailer. With a background in environmental engineering and experience managing an [...]

By sorting our waste into different bins, we can make a huge impact.

A partnership between a nonprofit and a waste-management company in Mobile, Alabama has already diverted 2.8 million oyster shells from landfill.