Throwing out a half-empty can of paint might not seem like a big deal, but the reality is it can pose a serious fire hazard. Oil-based paints, batteries, aerosol cans and wood stain-covered rags are ...

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New Yorkers are putting their junk in bins. How they got there says a lot about how policy is made. Dominic Pino is the ...

Ben Michael, an attorney at Michael & Associates, adds that a person with a stolen car can use your old license plate they ...

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

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Answer: I’ve noticed the trash bins, too, and have wondered, not only why they’re placed there, but also why there are three and why one is off by itself. There’s even a “No Parking ...

When all was said and done, employees collected roughly a whopping 780 pounds of trash from the mountain's slopes. Amongst the found objects were the usual suspects of things people drop off the lift: ...

His findings make up his first book, Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash (February 2025). The idea for it took root in the wake of China’s ban on plastic, in 2017, he says.

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For local scavengers, graduation season is a great time to salvage expensive household items and luxury goods abandoned by departing students.