Mayor Eric Adams is inducting a new borough into his "trash revolution," a plan slowly rolled out across New York City to containerize garbage and combat the city's longstanding rat crisis. A new ...

Cardboard boxes, broken appliances, and mattresses litter Oakland's streets, turning the California city into a battleground against trash as officials and residents scramble for solutions to an ...

In 2023, Republican state lawmakers slipped a provision into the state budget prohibiting local governments from banning ...

A house where mountains of trash were cleared out last year in the Los Angeles Fairfax neighborhood is once again surrounded by a sea of trash, prompting outrage from neighbors and city officials. The ...

Electron beam solves Teflon trash problem with super-efficient zaps By David Szondy August 02, 2025 Dramatic illustration of recycling Teflon with an electron beam ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Toledo city leaders are giving residents the chance to talk trash about the recent trash service pickup issues. City council members Theresa Gadus and Nick Komives are teaming up to ...

HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) -- The New York City Department of Sanitation's plan to clean up the city, not by adding trash cans but by removing them, is drawing the ire of some communities. Bags of trash ...

A three-year study recently published in the journal Community Science finds that about 96% of litter North Carolina waterkeeper organizations and their volunteers removed from trash traps were ...

Opinion - In our busy city of Kampala, we all see the problem of too much trash on the streets. But there is a hidden danger that comes from this waste problem: it is poisoning the air we breathe ...

PITTSBURGH — Trash is piling up in Oakland. As the school year approaches, many are moving out of houses. That means larger items like couches and mattresses are joining normal trash on sidewalks. The ...

Heaps of garbage outside a Los Angeles residence dubbed the "Trash House" in the Fairfax District are back more than a year after the city cleared the clutter. (William Liang / For The Times) On the ...