Wildwood’s latest effort to spruce up its downtown area may be replacing seven dumpsters with a trash compactor. Commissioners considered the compactor idea Monday at a workshop meeting. Executive ...

Here's where a trash compactor comes in and saves the night: First introduced in the 1940s for commercial use and sold to households in the late 1960s, it is a handy device that crushes garbage into a ...

Before my most recent kitchen trash can purchase, I never thought very hard about what I was buying — and that was a mistake. While technically any old vessel will work fine enough, there are ...

Monica Sanders covers climate justice and sustainability from the DMV. Every second, Americans throw away enough trash to fill three Empire State Buildings. The United States has earned the ...

The sculpture dates back to the Hellenistic period between 323 B.C. and 31 B.C. Authorities in Greece are investigating after a 2,000-year-old marble statue was discovered wrapped in a trash bag ...

SINGAPORE – Discarded plastic cups and small pieces of driftwood were retrieved from the beaches of Pasir Ris Park on Jan 22 – not by volunteers on a beach clean-up, but by a robot. Dubbed ...

Drones used for busting barricaded suspects and teen subway surfers could one day monitor New Yorkers’ garbage, too. The city Department of Sanitation is considering whether to enlist a fleet of ...

Garbage men pick up the trash from residents in the Westchester subdivision in west Houston. Trash pickup in Houston will resume Thursday after being suspended for three days due to a federal ...

RELATED: New fee looming as Houston’s recycling program faces delays and complaints Here is what SWMD’s schedule for trash pickup will look like for the rest of the week starting Thursday.

Some counties also adjusted trash service because of dangerous icy roads. Alachua County’s solid waste facilities and operations are closed on Wednesday and will resume regular hours on Thursday.

The term “garbage disposal” is really a bit of a misnomer. If you’ve ever had one, you probably know that you can’t run random garbage through it. Instead, they’re designed to grind up ...