Here's a good list of items not to put in your garbage disposal, and a bonus list of 3 to be cautious about.

Plastic bag and film recycling can certainly come with a language barrier. Take this quiz to understand the vocabulary, and the world will thank you.

A roundup of some of the weirdest — or shall we call them unique? — sleeping bags out there.

Dutch designer Dan Roosegaarde's Space Waste Lab visualizes 'the smog of our universe.'

Keep it simple with these carryalls with a stylish edge, which will last for years.

Find out how advances in technology have helped improve these bags, which are designed to break down in your compost pile.

New study finds that reusable bag users are more likely to reward themselves with junk food.

The supermarket giant also committed to lowering the amount of waste it produces.

Creative upcycling leads to cellos made from oil cans and works created with plastic bottle caps.

I've been covering the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the past year or so and just wrote about it here on MNN last week.

From the grocery store to the great pacific garbage patch, this short will open your eyes and tug at your heart.

Follow the life of a plastic bag in a hilarious mockumentary -- complete with dramatic music and a narrator with a British accent.

A new short mockumentary follows a plastic grocery bag on its journey to the Pacific Ocean.

Before the plastic shopping bag can settle into a life of ease in the Pacific ocean it must first navigate its way past dogs, park rangers, and tree branches.

A new CNBC documentary follows the secret life of garbage -- from your trash can to the garbage trucks to the landfills -- and our oceans.

For a mere $10,000, you can book a seat on a 20-day working cruise to a giant patch of floating plastic trash.

Material from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to be collected, melted down and rebuilt into a floating paradise for green tourism.

A new study by two graduate students from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego found that a little over nine percent of the fish that swim ne

The trash accumulating in the Pacific Ocean — scientists estimate there are 1.5 million tons of tsunami debris alone — is arriving on the West Coast.

New research finds that the Great Lakes are becoming polluted with the same plastic particles responsible for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

There's a secret world of microbes hidden on the plastic littering the oceans.

The winner of a new video contest can join a 3-week 'hardcore sailing adventure' through North Atlantic garbage patches.

A single-celled, coral-killing creature with 'devil horns' has been found on microplastics in the open ocean.

A vast amount of the plastic garbage littering the surface of the ocean may be disappearing, a new study suggests.

Angela Sun investigated several aspects of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in her documentary "Plastic Paradise."

A 4th garbage collection zone, this one in the South Pacific, emerges.

Meanwhile in England, shopping basket theft is on the rise.

Onward Bag is landfill-skirting design at its most ingenious.

If you want paper or plastic in NYC, plan on sharing a few more nickels. The fee goes into effect on Oct. 1, 2016.

Sweden, a recycling-happy land where 810,000 homes are heated by the incineration of waste, is facing a unique dilemma: It needs more fuel.

Manufacturing and distribution of plastic shopping bags come with steep fines and serious jail time in the East African nation.

The 20-year-old wunderkind's impossible dream of cleaning up ocean plastic is becoming a reality.

It could represent a biodegradable solution to the omnipresent pollution clogging our landfills.

Injured military K-9 from ISIS raid visits the White House.

Lucky was a broken street dog until he journeyed half a world away to inspire others.

An anti-plastic campaign directed at the Britain's most beloved crisp company is leading to changes in packaging and recycling.

Whatever your intent, the statistics show you're probably only using those reusable bags once.

Could plastic-eating waxworms be part of the solution to our plastic pollution?

With all its nutrition, cabbage might want to brag a bit more. These recipes make it easy to get the best this veggie has to offer.

A huge sea of plastic trash is swirling in the North Pacific — part of an even broader plastic plague that's growing in oceans worldwide.

OK, these used golf balls are more often than not name brand balls, but this does not matter. The beginning golfer, in learning how to hit the ball straight, keep it in the fairway, out of the woods and water, will go through dozens, if not hundreds of golf balls

Camera bags have two main purposes- to protect the camera and to make it easy to tote your camera and accessories along. We can provide 4 simple tips for choosing the right camera bag.

Alakdan Fight Gear, a filipino brand MMA gear Company is Releasing a Limited Edition MMA Shorts committed to the Filipino Fighter and their pursuit to greatness.

ThinkHotels is now the chief sponsor of Baguley Athletic Football Club. Based in England, this online hotel booking service provider has an offer for every demand.

Over 60% of the world's ocean plastic comes from 5 countries, including Thailand. Luumi aims to remove 1 million plastic bags from circulation through a partnership with local monks.

The Aquagenx water quality test kit lets Helioz quantify E. coli concentrations in lower climates at ambient temperature without electricity and labs

4 Eco Services is urging homeowners to wisely use their garbage disposal during the holiday season to avoid untimely clogged pipes.

Mr. Bagby has been endorsed by Marquis Who's Who as a leader in the field of chemistry

Argent Associates recently donated duffle and conference bags to the Michigan Minority Supplier Development Council's Luggage Drive and bikes to the "Bikes for Kids" drive in Southern California and Mexico sponsored by RealComm