UBQ co-founder Tato Bigio holds a container of UBQ's evolved thermoplastic created from organic waste at a press conference. (Joe Dodson/Courthouse News) RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — Virginia localities ...

ST. LOUIS — A little more than two months after St. Louis officials halted alleyway recycling in favor of drop-off locations, the new system is facing criticism as overflowing bins create eyesores in ...

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s office has identified a man found dead inside a South Los Angeles clothing recycling bin on October 16. The man was identified as 36-year-old ...

Property tax bills for many City of San Diego residents now include trash collection fees, but thousands of people living in the City won't receive their new trash bins for months, prompting questions ...

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San Diego finalized a controversial plan Monday to replace hundreds of thousands of trash and recycling bins — many of them new or only a few years old — and send the $65 million bill to customers.

Re “Rollout of city trash service pressing forward” (Oct. 19): I own a house in the city. At my tenant’s request, I ordered the least expensive bundle of trash bins. When I received my property tax ...

Dozens of the city’s new space-age garbage containers crash-landed in Brooklyn over the last week, marking the latest move by the sanitation department to eradicate mountains of trash bags from ...

With 225,000 households eligible for city-provided — and homeowner-paid — trash service, the Environmental Services Department (ESD) started a rollout this week of the new, more modern gray containers ...

SAN DIEGO — Property tax bills for many City of San Diego residents now include trash collection fees, but thousands of people living in the City won't receive their new trash bins for months, ...

A group of nonprofit municipal recycling facilities are urging states to keep flexible plastics and films out of curbside recycling programs, as those states start to implement packaging EPR laws. An ...