Police sifted through the garbage at a home for weeks before a search uncovered "100 or more" bags of marijuana and other ...

Three mornings a week, a fleet of brand-new, $500,000 trucks descends on Harlem to hoist a thousand massive trash bins into the air. Sanitation worker Anthony Martin stood outside one of the ...

Alyssa Espinoza of NeighborWorks Northeastern Pennsylvania had three words of advice for West Side teams participating in the third annual Garbage Olympics Saturday. “Follow that trash!” ...

A proposal in the state Legislature that would require a steep drop in non-recyclable packaging faces fierce opposition from ...

For decades, our workers have swept the streets and then put the refuse in bags next to the garbage pails on street corners. It was all so very simple. Then, a year and a half ago, the city ...

Scientists have come up with a new way to measure ocean trash ... grocery bags of plastic are going to be ten bags," she says. That would be 155 million tons a year if present garbage management ...

Here’s how it works. Let me free associate a series of words to see if, combined, they conjure a perfect picture of Garbage Country in your mind. Wall-E trash piles. Micro Machine Land Rover.

With a minimum 24-month delay on the delivery of new garbage trucks for Guam, residents can expect delays with trash pickup schedules until new vehicles arrive. “We all just have to have a ...

Taking out the trash just got a whole lot sweeter. In honor of its 60th anniversary, Hefty has released a limited-edition birthday cake-scented trash bag, and shoppers are scrambling to get their ...

Hefty celebrates 60 years with a scent that screams “surprise party.” Hefty released limited-edition birthday cake-scented Ultra Strong trash bags to celebrate its 60th anniversary, priced at ...

Mayor Eric Adams is losing his “war on rats” — in large part because his administration refuses to fully fund a Sanitation Department unit dealing with a backlog of more than 1,700 garbage ...

The U.S. also ranks as high as third among coastal nations for contributing litter, illegally dumped trash and other mismanaged waste to its shorelines. Meanwhile, less than 10 percent of American ...