Millions of Americans are living in fear that they will go hungry due to potential delays in SNAP food assistance benefit payments, even after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to make payments in November. That’s in a nation where close to $400 billion in food is estimated to …
Last Updated:September 30, 2025, 13:51 IST Inspired by this model, variations of garbage cafés have emerged in other parts of the country. In Siliguri, a group of school alumni started offering free meals every Saturday. The garbage café idea attempts to connect the dots between two realities. Instead of treating …
The author paid a company, Renewable Recycling, to pick up and recycle his queen-size mattress in New York City. Greg Iacurci I paid $95 to recycle a mattress. It may sound odd, silly even, to pay so much to dispose of a run-of-the-mill household item. But the economics of mattress …
This story is a partnership between Inside Climate News and CBS News. Watch the CBS Reports documentary, “Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic’s Idea Work?” in the video player above. HOUSTON, Tex.—When the news crew showed up outside a waste-handling business that’s failed three fire safety inspections and has yet to …