STORY: This island in Guatemala is made of garbage. There are plastic bottles, tires, sofas — even human remains have been found here. Local residents are worried about it. They fish in Lake Amatitlan ...

Located off the coast of the Ieura Port in Japan’s Teshima Island is Tashima Factory. What was once an ironworks factory — later called “Garbage Island” for a scourge of industrial waste and illegal ...

DONGAN HILLS, Staten Island (WABC) -- Neighbors are fuming over trash bags piling up outside their homes on Staten Island and are wondering if a work slowdown is to blame. "It's garbage. Eventually it ...