Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. After however many months spent indoors with three roommates and one 13-gallon trash can, my big ...

It’s hard to gross out Cindy Zipf. Three decades of cleaning up beaches have inured her to the horrors of, say, a washed-up diaper. But there’s one kind of trash that Zipf, executive director of the ...