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How a Trash Crew Fostered a Boy’s Love of Garbage Trucks (WATCH)
At the age of four, some boys love super heroes. Some love football. Some love everything. Mycal Bickings of Levittown, Pennsylvania has only one...
Swedes Are Such Good Recyclers They’ve Run Out of Garbage
With the highly successful recycling habits of Swedish households - they sent just 4% of their waste to landfills in 2011 - comes the...
Formerly Homeless Woman Finds Inspiration in the Trash
After surviving a year and a half of homelessness in the early 1980s, Lucinda Yates moved back to Portland and started putting her life...
U.K. Company to Make Power from 50 Year-Old Garbage
150,000 landfill sites dot the continent of Europe. Now, digging up this waste could power 60,000 homes. If a pilot project by U.K. company...
Size of the Ocean Garbage Patch is “Grossly Exaggerated”
Claims in the media about a great garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean being "twice the size of Texas" exaggerated the actual size by...
Japanese Man Invents Machine to Turn Plastic Back into Oil
Out of his love for the environment and concern about over-flowing landfills, Akinori Ito, from the Japanese company Blest, developed a machine capable of...
Every TerraCycle Product is Made From Garbage, Packaged in Garbage
Kraft Foods has joined a list of major corporations, like Coke and Kellogg, to fund the collection of used packaging and consumer leftovers of...
Woman Turns in Bag Stuffed With $65,000
"A county garbage operations employee found a plastic bag on the road stuffed with $65,000 Thursday — and immediately turned it in to authorities."...
New Technology Turns Garbage Into Gold
(Reprint of a GNN story from 2003; in preparation for a followup article soon)
IMAGINE. . . Imagine a machine that can turn almost...
Homeless Man Returns $900 in a Wallet
A homeless man found $900 in a wallet in a trash bin but returned it to the owner.
Kim B., who works as a janitor...
After Years of Walking at 4am to Haul Trash, He Graduated From Harvard Law School
In 2020, GNN celebrated the hard work of 18-year-old Rehan Staton, who worked for years as a garbage man to support a charge into...
Dedicated Volunteer Works in Charity Shop Despite 4-Hour Commute – And He’s 100 Years Old
A dedicated charity shop volunteer spends 12 hours a week commuting to and from work— despite being 100 years old.
David Flucker celebrated his centennial...
A Homemade Bumper Sticker Saved a Stranger’s Life After She Asked the Universe For ‘a Sign’
When you’re headed down a dark road and feeling hopeless, sometimes all it takes to get you headed back in the right direction is...
Watch Golden Retriever Lead Ambulance Through a Maze of Alleyways to Save His Owner
A clever canine companion is being praised for its hand in rescuing its owner after he collapsed in an alleyway earlier this week.
Self-Driving, 3D-Printed Boats Could Free Up Traffic Congestion by Sailing on City Waterways
If you're distrustful of self-driving cars carrying people, what about these autonomous boats that can free up traffic congestion by ferrying goods?
Your Weekly Horoscope – ‘Free Will Astrology’ From Rob Brezsny
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to...
Nonprofit Diverts an Ocean Plastic Tide, Removing 2 Million Pounds of Trash From Waterways
The TerraCycle Global Foundation reached an impressive milestone last month, announcing that they've removed over 2 million pounds of waste from rivers, canals, and...
Grocery Worker Rescues Mom By Asking a Crying Toddler if She Wants to Scan Items (WATCH)
It doesn't matter how expert you are and calming your child, sometimes they are simply inconsolable; and parallel to that fact is another that...
Littering Scoundrel Overwhelming Neighborhood With Half-eaten Chocolate Turns Out to be a Squirrel
The identity of serial litterers who spent months blighting a housing estate with half-eaten chocolates was discovered to be greedy squirrels.
Locals living in Ellesmere...
Fishing Nets and Carpets Can Be Recycled Molecularly Thanks to Genius Chemist and Brand New Catalyst
A team of chemists has developed a low-cost, non-toxic catalyst that can easily deconstruct the complex plastic polymers of fishing nets, promising that a...