It’s known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but it’s far more than a single cluster of human waste. There are multiple such “islands” in the planet’s waters — not just in the oceans ...

There, they have become expert recyclers, building their nests out of human trash. These plump, black-and-white birds have made themselves at home in the canals of central Amsterdam. There ...

More than six hundred pieces of human trash were found in a common coot’s nest. This graphic displays some of the items discovered, along with their expiry date. (Submitted by Auke-Florian ...

The constituents in this particular cycle are human trash. Derwent Howe was a major iron- and steel-making area in the 19th and 20th centuries. During their examination, researchers found 27 ...

The trash compactor, alongside creative reusing and repurposing, would be a way of dealing with human-induced garbage elsewhere in the solar system, Sierra Space's release suggested. "Long-term ...