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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - FEB 12: Workers sift through boxes of recyclables at the Ridwell central warehouse in San Leandro, California on February 12, 2026. For a $20 monthly fee, Ridwell will pick up the items your local waste hauler won't take: batteries, plastic bags, lightbulbs and old clothes, in order to ensure such items are actually recycled. (Josh Edelson / For the Times)

This company tries to recycle the really difficult plastics

Ridwell, and companies like it, offer to take complex plastic items you can’t put in your blue bin and find a home for them. But are they doing more harm than good?

Mammoth Lakes, CA - February 12: Veteran guide Howie Schwartz leads a tour into the popular backcountry near the Mill City site on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025 in Mammoth Lakes, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
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A fatal avalanche put a spotlight on the risks of backcountry skiing. Here’s why people will keep going

An egret takes off in a wetland with newly-planted trees Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, in Meraux, La. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

What can toughen Louisiana coast against worsening storms? Four years and 30,000 trees

In this image made from video and released by the University of Western Australia, a sleeper shark swims into the spotlight of a video camera in Antarctica in January 2025. (Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre, Inkfish, Kelpie Geoscience via AP)

Surprise shark caught on camera for first time in Antarctica’s near-freezing deep

Members of a rescue team in Soda Springs, California on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026.

Deadliest avalanche in modern California history: What we know about the disaster in Tahoe

A wolf came to L.A. looking for love. On Valentine’s Day, she’s moved on

Yosemite’s famed ‘firefall’ returns. Here’s how to see it for yourself

Los Angeles man dies on advanced ski trail near Lake Tahoe

A ‘ticking environmental time bomb’: Illegal cannabis farms poison California’s forests

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