The Recycling Myth
Daniel Garcia for POLITICO

How recycling is killing the planet

By taking the guilt out of consumption, it undermines effort to cut back on waste.

The problem with recycling? One word: Plastics

No matter how well we sort, much of what we throw away cannot be reused.

Why Turkey became Europe’s garbage dump

The growing wave of waste is creating a political problem for the government.

Denmark’s ‘devilish’ waste dilemma

Its state-of-the-art trash incinerators are sending its climate ambitions up in smoke.