For the last 12 years a company called Bureo has been working with local fisherman to remove dangerous nets from the ocean.

Trash is inevitable, a by-product of a modern consumer society. Where it ends up and why, however, is another story. In his new book, journalist Alexander Clapp shows how our garbage — along ...

Children play in a pile of scrap plastic in a village in East Java, Indonesia, while their mother ... by paper-importing companies to local communities, who then engage in illegal sorting and ...