The individual can and should be accountable for their own waste whenever possible — taking shorter showers, reducing consumption, learning more about recycling, etc. But the brunt of the work has to be done by the government and by large corporations because they’re the ones who have the power to actualize real, immediate and impactful change.

The climbing costs of recycling have placed Boston in an environmentalist dilemma.

Following multiple winter storms that brought over two feet of the snow to the New England region over the past two weeks, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh launched the “Boston Snow Stats” website Monday...