While single-stream recycling is convenient, it has downsides. Contamination, such as food residue, plastic bags and items that can’t be recycled, can degrade the quality of the remaining material, ...

Manhattan introduces "Empire Bins" for waste management, aiming to improve sidewalk cleanliness and efficiency in trash ...

On April 4, the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) published its final material characterization study ...

Community colleges have in recent years been plagued by fraudsters posing as students to swindle financial aid money. Here’s ...

The cause of the fire remains under investigation. However, firefighters did find an old computer among the debris.

The decision marks the first adjusted fee rate in 17 years and aims to close a nearly $1 billion budget gap in the city’s ...

Dumpster diving is technically legal in California, legal experts say, but practitioners must follow certain rules. Mitch Cox TNS If a dumpster is located on private property or if there’s clear ...

After one year of extensive community outreach and the completion of a thorough cost-of-service study and operational ...

But council members expressed reservations and criticized the independent budget analyst’s much lower initial estimate of the ...

City councilmembers in Berkeley, California, are considering law to ban most plants within five feet of houses in ...

The recycling symbol isn’t copyrighted, which means any plastic-producing company can slap it on their products, even if they aren’t recyclable. That piece of paper or plastic that we supposed ...