The small town Plympton, Massachusetts, eliminated 305 tons of garbage a year by making everyone pay for what they toss.

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches.

Don’t use e-cigarettes unless they can be recycled. Ban the butt? The city of San Francisco spends some $7.5 million a year cleaning up cigarette butts, and is far from the only municipality ...

Former city sanitation worker Terrill Haigler sees himself as a supplemental force in the Parker administration's war on ...

"We should treat our trash like a treasure," Dambo explained. Mama Rosa is made of old trees from Wauwatosa neighborhoods, ...

Recycling is one of those things that sounds simple just toss your bottles and cans in the blue bin and you’re saving the ...

After some changes in trash accessibility in the town of Silverton, some local restaurant owners are fighting to have things ...