Merced County residents now have an easier way to dispose of batteries. The regional waste authority has launched a free battery recycling program. There are now more than 20 locations throughout ...

Will drones be checking if New Yorkers are following the rules when it comes to trash collection throughout the city? The Department of Sanitation says maybe, as it is considering using the technology ...

It's one thing to want to live a low-waste lifestyle, but it's another thing to actually take the steps necessary to live it. Frankly, it's hard living a low-waste lifestyle, since so many essential ...

A beautiful creek was marred by bags of trash illegally dumped on Fern Lane Thursday. Bob Knight, Lincoln County Litter and Solid Waste Control Coordinator, operated a bucket to pick up the trash with ...

In their space-starved apartments, residents complain they have no good place to store their mounting food scraps — and collection can, at times, be annoying.

Tecumseh will join other nearby communities in requiring the use of carts, aka totes or toters, for trash and recycling ...

Authors of the new plastic waste report, echoing the first-year report, said after the plastic reduction law roughly 16.5 ...

Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world's oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic pollution is a global problem. Every year 19-23 million tonnes of ...

The success of recycling plastic is abysmal — the U.S. rate is roughly 7% — but in theory it can be done. So, I was delighted when I learned that Tucson, Ariz., where I live, was starting a pilot ...

One Tucson recycling center has closed and another is threatened, even as the city builds a facility for reusing plastic ...

I’m a dedicated recycler. I fret when I see people throwing garbage in with soda cans and empty water bottles. I’ve even been ...

I’m a dedicated recycler. I fret when I see people throwing garbage in with soda cans and empty water bottles. I’ve even been ...