Waste Materials and Disposal

July 7, 2023

Kissing a Fellow Janitor Amid the Trash

After two assaults, I sought healing on the coldest, driest and windiest continent on earth. On my first day of work in Antarctica, I found a […]
April 20, 2023

Coach Has a New Sustainable Fashion Brand. Will Shoppers Go For It?

Coachtopia, a new sub-brand from the American fashion house, uses waste or recycled materials to make new products. Will it catch on? During an interview in […]
January 13, 2023

Turning Trash Into Poetry

Ser Serpas, a young artist known for kinetic arrangements of discarded furniture, opens up about her expressive way of processing the used world. PARIS — Compared […]
November 21, 2022

Dumpster Divers Use TikTok to Shame Stores and Fight Waste

At the third Duane Reade of the night, Anna Sacks, 31, a dumpster diver who goes by @trashwalker on TikTok, hit the jackpot. Half a dozen […]
August 31, 2022

Designers From Around the World Use

Designers from around the world find inspiration in traditional garment making in their quest to eliminate fabric waste. This article is part of a series examining […]
May 30, 2021

Ways to Improve the Planet After Covid

As the pandemic and lockdowns dragged on and on over the past year, many people longed only for the day when the world would return to […]
April 23, 2021

Does Recycled Gold Herald a Greener Future for Jewelry?

Boryana Straubel, founder of Generation Collection, calls recycled gold a way to clean up electronic waste — and a canny investment. With economics and industrial engineering […]
May 7, 2020

How to Embrace Your Inner Trash Animal

In the 1973 animated classic “Charlotte’s Web,” an entire musical number is dedicated to the film’s antagonist, a rat named Templeton, feasting on garbage at the […]
December 24, 2019

Tracing the Path From Fast Fashion to ‘Trashion’

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. December is a season of consumption, […]
December 20, 2019

The Future Is Trashion

The ragpicker of Brooklyn works out of a 750-square-foot storefront a few blocks east of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, down a mostly residential side street in Williamsburg, […]