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 -- including 'reusable" ones - while also restricting the use of single-use plastic ...

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.

A 4-year-old male Newfoundland Labrador Retriever was discovered dead in a garbage bag inside a trash can on First Street, prompting an investigation by the Ren ...

Residents in Phillipsburg had a lot to say about a garbage can mandate when it was announced, and even more after it went ...

Discover how one resident's recycling experience turned into a 25-year commitment to composting, with D.C. DPW enhancing ...

Time to part ways with that $5 half broken piece of plastic you've been using since college and give your bathroom an upgrade ...

Spread the loveIn Des Moines, the Animal Rescue League of Iowa, rescued a dog that had been abandoned in a plastic trash bag ...

The City of Watertown is chucking a recent change to its trash policy into the bin. City officials are once again allowing ...

Starting Saturday, it’s going to cost $3 instead of $2 to dump a bag of trash at the Keene Transfer Station, the first time ...

The emaciated bulldog — just 23 pounds with his ribs visible — had been stuffed inside the bag and abandoned along an Iowa ...