Rumpke issued a new warning about what people should not leave out at the curb less than a week after a truck exploded in ...

As trash continues to pile up in Maine's landfills, the cost of transferring and disposing waste is also increasing. In ...

The town’s waste management and recycling supervisor recommended the town stop paying for commercial trash disposal and ...

In California, "they don't throw their garbage away, they turn it into television shows." So said Woody Allen in "Annie Hall." But when Governor ...

Local Waste employees narrowly avoided a dangerous situation on Wednesday when an oxygen tank exploded in the back of a ...

Sorting out answers at Staten Island’s giant paper pulp vat and the massive sifter in Brooklyn — including why seeing metal thrown in the trash makes one waste expert “weak in the knees.” ...

Voters will decide whether to give town's current noise ordinance "more teeth" and will choose who should handle the town's ...

Where do pizza boxes go? What exactly is rigid plastic? How clean do empty jars need to be? Relax, experts say.

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A “WORRYING” surge in cases of a winter virus causing violent vomiting and diarrhea is flooding NHS hospitals. Norovirus, better known as the ‘winter vomiting bug’, is ...

A WOMAN who decided to rummage through other people’s bins has shown how she managed to find a whopping £1,600 worth of ...