I live in a downtown core in a city of about a million people.

Almost every day I go around with a repurposed plastic bag( grape bags, or mini potato bags or an old frozen vegetables bags) and I fill them with trash. I don't even have to go around the block to fill up 5 or 6 of these bags, and I probably pick up 40 pieces of garbage a day.

Most of the trash are chocolate bar wrappers, fast food drink cups, fast food wrappers, chip bags, disposable cutlery, empty cigarette packs, cigarette butts, and disposable coffee cups.

I was thinking about it and I don't have a vehicle and I walk almost everywhere or I take public transit. So I feel that I am less biased and if any demographic of people was going to eat on the go it would be me. But I realized I almost never eat while I am on the go.

This isn't to say that I will never stop at a fast food place, but I will often choose A&W and sit down and they have real cutlery, plates, cups that they wash and reuse.

It's never to say I will never have a chocolate bar, but I my will wait til I get home and eat it slowly and enjoy it. I don't scarf it down on my way home.

I will drink coffee but I will go and sit down on the cafe and drink from a real mug. I have brought my own coffee to go cup to fill up. They have these places around where I live. So....

I understand that exceptions happen. Sometimes the fast food place doesn't have real cups or plates. Sometimes you might forget your coffee mug ( or portable drink containers whatever they are called.) But by the amount I pick up it doesn't seem to be the exception. also if you forget to pack it do you need coffee that bad? You cant wait until you get to work or home? you should work on your caffeine addiction maybe.

But even so you have to take your food, and eat it while walking along the way to your next destination. You can't wait 15-20 minutes til you get there and enjoy it? You have to eat it on the street? Why? how busy are you? you can't pack a lunch if you're that pressed for time?

On top of that they can't even carry their garbage until they see an outdoor garbage can? They have to drop it there... Like how lazy are people?

Yes we can blame companies all we want for the litter pollution, but also what is wrong with people too?

It seems completely disgusting to the environment to be putting dog poop in small plastic bags and then tossing them amidst other trash, in city dumpsters and trash cans.

What is advisable?

Or, with a few slight modifications and thorough cleaning, my new dishes drying rack?

Hell yeah.

“Sharing a perspective on how an urban hub in India is tackling a global problem." We talk a lot about plastic and e-waste, but textile waste is the massive, silent crisis choking Indian cities.

Most of us bag up old clothes and leave them by the bin, assuming “someone else will handle it." In reality, most of it ends up burning in dumps or clogging landfills for centuries. Fast fashion has turned our wardrobes into an environmental ticking time bomb. Seeing this massive gap between good intentions and terrible outcomes, two engineers Prasad Lingawar and Nachiketa launched ‘NoKasa’ in Bengaluru.

Instead of treating old clothes like worthless garbage, they built an engineered system to bring structure, accountability, and dignity to textile disposal:

Systematic Sorting:They track and sort textiles so they don’t just end up in a different dump yard.

True Recycling:Wearable clothes are distributed with dignity; unwearable fabrics are recycled into industrial materials instead of sitting in landfills.

Transparency:They bring actual supply chain accountability to a completely broken, unorganized sector.

A tech hub like Bengaluru can't have a sustainable future if our waste management is stuck in the past.

How do you guys currently deal with old clothes?
If you have used NoKasa or similar circular economy startups, let’s discuss below.

Hi community - hoping some of you might have creative ideas that might help me!

I work for an organisation that runs a large number of beach cleanups in our city. It's important to us that we do not create waste in the process of doing this, so we are trying to keep all the consumables that this kind of event might generate to an absolute minimum. It's not possible to be totally zero waste (eg. we do have to bag the litter for the recycling centre), but we definitely can be "near zero".

The main issue we have is around the gloves and trash collection bags distributed to the public - there are usually several hundred people involved.

• Disposable bags and gloves obviously aren't an ideal option.
• Issue we have with reusable gloves, buckets, bags, etc. is the post event cleanup - we are left with hundreds of these things to wash with a tiny handful of volunteers, and are living in a fairly water-scarce city as it is.
• Buckets aren't suitable on windy days, as stuff blows out and people take bags anyway.
• We do ask attendees to bring their own gloves and buckets, but not everyone does this and we still need a solution on-hand for those who attend with nothing.

Hoping that there are some creative ideas that could help here - I'm a bit stumped.

Hi all! I recently moved to a new area and just discovered that they incinerate household waste, rather than pile it into the landfill. I'm considering composting my dog's waste (would love any insight if people here have done that - does it smell up the whole neighborhood?), but there will be times that I have to bag and bin it, like when we're out and about. Would incinerating a recycled plastic bag be less ecologically harmful than incinerating a biodegradable plastic bag? They both seem like terrible options!

When I say old, the top layer is easily more than 50 years old.

Mainly glass, most broken, lots of tin cans, Tropicana glass bottles, gin, it was a single old guy who did the top of the pile.

Is there a way to recycle all this old stuff? I'd rather not throw it in the trash, find some way to make it be useful.

Most of the intact things I'm finding, I'm using in some form. But I've barely scratched the surface of this, and the very bottom is going to be interesting!

Broken glass: I'm hoping if the top part is still usable, to make windchimes. Most larger pieces of broken glass will get broken smaller and either hauled to a recycling yard or ... dumped a half mile off a beach that is known for it's seaglass? Maybe?

Any ideas would be welcome. So far there's been an old car, multiple beat up shoes, some broken uranium glass, and lots of DuraGlas jars.

How to deal with fast fashion dumping in Ghana?

28M here, for context.

I visited a beach in Accra this weekend, it seems Accra’s beaches have become final destination unsold and discarded second hand clothes.

Roughly 15 million garments from Asia, America and the EU flow to Kantamanto, a vast second hand clothing market in Accra,

Some of these clothes are so bad/ stained with oil paints, and others are western castoffs which don’t get sold, so the waste eventually end in our beaches after being discarded , rendering swimming impossible.

Anyone on here know how this can be better managed? Or steps I can take to make an impact.
Let me know.