Sorting out answers at Staten Island’s giant paper pulp vat and the massive sifter in Brooklyn — including why seeing metal ...

Oregon Senate Bill 551, sponsored by Democrat Janeen Sollman of Hillsboro, would phase out all plastic checkout bags -- ...

Voters will decide whether to give town's current noise ordinance "more teeth" and will choose who should handle the town's ...

Rodents have apparently gnawed clear through the dense plastic of the Big Apple ‘s supposedly “rat proof” new trash bins — but the city said the results show the containers are largely keeping the ...

Where do pizza boxes go? What exactly is rigid plastic? How clean do empty jars need to be? Relax, experts say.

Phillipsburg Councilman Lee Clark has promised to make a pitch on behalf of aggrieved residents in his town during the next town council meeting. “I have proposed a program to allow the town of ...