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My wife and I collected 24 years' worth of clutter. Now, our hobby is throwing away a bag of trash every night, and it's changed our marriage.
My wife and I moved into a smaller house and realized how much clutter we had. We decided to declut…
Noah Berlatsky
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New York's viral new trash cans unveiled nearly 2 years after a $1.6 million contract with consultancy giant McKinsey
New York City contracted McKinsey & Company in 2022 to work with the Department of Sanitation on a …
Nora Redmond
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A TikToker used garbage bags and grocery wrappers to recreate Ana de Armas' Venice film festival designer outfit
De Armas attended the Venice film festival for the world premiere of her new film "Blonde" wearing …
Michele Theil
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An environmentalist discovered heaps of unused Starbucks food and cups in trash bags on the street, as TikTokers decried its wasteful policies
Starbucks told Insider that while the store in question had donated its unused goods in the past, i…
Geoff Weiss
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Fighting our plastic problem: Bans and recycling mandates gain steam in the US and abroad
States like California and countries including Canada and India hope to reduce pollution by banning…
Catherine Boudreau
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I take people on rat tours in New York City – it's a little taboo but people love it
Kenny Bollwerk, aka "Rat Daddy," takes people on tours to see rats in New York City.
Alia Shoaib
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Balenciaga is selling an $1,800 trash bag that 'looks exactly like a Hefty bag you'd use in your kitchen'
The calfskin drawstring bag is drawing scorn on the internet, much like in 2017 when Balenciaga deb…
Bethany Biron
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This $100 smart trash can changes and replaces its garbage bags - see how it works
The townew trash can, a product from Toronto-based tech company Knectek Labs, is designed to take t…
Paige Leskin
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A device invented by a 25-year-old is finally catching trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It hauled 60 bags to shore to turn into new products.
But one of the challenges in taking on this project, Slat said, is that plastic debris is often wea…
Aria Bendix,Aria Bendix
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Inside 'millennial humor,' the new outdated trait Gen Z has identified
From "goofy" musical-parody YouTube channels to self-deprecating jokes about struggling with "adult…
Charissa Cheong
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What happens to NYC's 3.2 million tons of trash
New York City doesn't process its own trash. The city exports it to waste to energy facilities and …
Abby Narishkin,Steve Cameron,…
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This voice- and motion-activated trash can keeps my hands free of germs as it collects my garbage
The simplehuman Touch-Free Dual Compartment Trash Can is both motion sensor- and voice-activated ma…
James Brains
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A 4-time Formula 1 world champion stayed behind to help tidy up garbage after the British Grand Prix
The environmentally-conscious Vettel has said previously the sport should be 'setting examples rath…
Sam Cooper
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Nurse dies in New York hospital where workers are reduced to using trash bags as protective medical gear
In the United States, New York state has become the epicenter for the coronavirus outbreak, with mo…
Sarah Al-Arshani,Sarah Al-Ars…
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More plastic pollution is swirling in the deep ocean than in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a new study has found
Microplastics aren't just a problem for marine life. They make their way into the food we eat and b…
Aylin Woodward
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A new version of the massive plastic cleanup device invented by a 24-year-old is returning to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The first test will involve attaching a sea anchor that decelerates the speed of the system. If tha…
Aria Bendix
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Berlin's Madame Tussauds put its wax Trump statue in a garbage bin just days before US election
The wax Trump statue was surrounded by images of his signature catchphrases — "Fake News," and "You…
Dominic-Madori Davis
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Angering bodega owners, New York will ban plastic bags on Sunday, joining California and hundreds of cities that have adopted similar policies
The ban in California has produced mixed results. As the San Francisco Chronicle noted, while it ha…
Connor Perrett,Connor Perrett
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A 25-year-old's mission to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has yielded a new discovery - and it means the plastic problem is even worse than we thought
Slat's solution is a floating, U-shaped array that captures plastic in its fold like a giant arm. T…