Waste management is a crisis topic in Miami-Dade County these days. The county is running out of landfill and other spaces for all its garbage – especially after a fire earlier this year gutted a ...

Many of us don’t give too much thought to what we put in the trash. Sure, we know we need to sort the recyclable items separately, but aside from that, we often lump everything else together and don’t ...

Many multi-unit residential buildings are designed or managed in ways that make recycling and proper waste disposal difficult ...

Sorting your trash and recycling is common practice: break down the cardboard boxes, separate the compostable material and plastics and put them into the correct containers, put the trash on the curb, ...

In early 2018, residents of Boise, Idaho were told by city officials that a breakthrough technology could transform their hard-to-recycle plastic waste into low-polluting fuel. The program, backed by ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The city of Jacksonville is setting aside $4 million to help for garbage and recycling services as one city council member proposed raising garbage fees. RELATED: Jacksonville ...

Mr. Clapp is a journalist and the author of “Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash,” from which this essay is adapted. In the closing years of the Cold War, something strange started to happen.

Edward Randviir receives funding from Innovate UK and the Royal Society. He has previously consulted on waste management sites, including anaerobic digestion, in-vessel composting, and energy from ...

A change in waste haulers in six dozen communities across Metro Detroit has some residents crying foul over missed trash pick-ups, lingering delays and other confusion, though officials insist the ...