It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She’s distraught about the state of the environment. “It’s crazy what we’re doing. It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – Pity the poor blue bin, the workhorse of Onondaga County’s recycling program for a generation. About 800,000 of the plastic bins have been filled and emptied, tossed and cracked, ...