If you live in Lagos or Ogun, chances are you’ve seen it — someone walking past with a sack slung over their back, bending occasionally to pick up used plastic bottles from the roadside. Maybe you’ve ...

Have some extra aluminum cans? Don't just throw them out! Bring them by the Sinton Historical Museum. An effort fellow businesses are now pitching into.

Smelly trash can quickly sour the atmosphere in your kitchen, bathroom, or office. Fortunately, some trash cans are spec ...

A union representing thousands of city workers in Philadelphia and the city have reached a deal to end a more than weeklong ...

Most commercial buildings, restaurants, and big apartment complexes use private haulers to collect their trash. That made a ...

It turns out that your trash can be a surprisingly accurate mirror of your income level. From the brands you buy to the ...

If you put Japanese knotwood into the compost bin, you may end up inadvertently spreading it everywhere. Instead, dispose of ...

New York City is testing new bins to contain the 14 million tons of waste it produces each year.

There are much larger, sweeping laws other than a bag fee that impact us. Unseen but there, they shape our behavior.

The grants from the William Penn Foundation focus on creating legal dumpsites for residents and small haulers.

The small town of Plympton, Massachusetts, took the bold step of making everyone pay for what they toss.

Sophia Kokolakis doesn’t always know what she’s having for dinner, even after she’s been to the store. A large paper bag brimming with food rides shotgun on the way home, but she has no clue what’s ...