Doug Farrar, a spokesman for the F.T.C., said that rather than give consumers advice on how to deal with the surprise charges, the agency was striving to make businesses cut junk fees out entirely ...

While junk journaling as a practice — using your everyday waste to track and catalog your life and experiences — sounds straightforward, the parameters of the craft can be hard for hobbyists ...

When he doesn’t make art out of the detritus that arrives at his shop — and let’s face it, there will always be more junk than any one person can alchemize into art — he tries to upcycle ...