For many people, what happens to donated clothes or bags of recycling waste is a mystery — out of sight, out of mind. But for millions, this waste is a livelihood. All over the world, waste pickers ...

On a Thursday morning in Portland’s Old Town neighborhood, two dozen people mill around a warehouse, waiting for the results of a lottery. At 7:45 sharp, a woman sitting in an interior office calls ...

In the heart of the Beldangi refugee settlement in Nepal’s eastern Jhapa District, Bhutanese refugee Amber Bahadur Jogi set out on his bicycle to hunt for the day’s rubbish. The 58-year-old has turned ...

In just eight months, a waste crisis in Pakistan’s most populous province was turned into the world’s largest integrated waste management system. The initiative’s massive scale and impressive results, ...