The volume of trash hauled out of this city during the Yuletide season went down by 50 metric tons in December last year, following the city’s adoption of a “circular economy,” ...

Sorting out answers at Staten Island’s giant paper pulp vat and the massive sifter in Brooklyn — including why seeing metal ...

Trashies' Take Back Bag program makes it easy to recycle old clothes, while earning rewards to buy sustainable products.

You may already know not to pour cooking oil down the sink, but properly disposing of it in the trash presents its own challenges.

Discover how one resident's recycling experience turned into a 25-year commitment to composting, with D.C. DPW enhancing ...

In their space-starved apartments, residents complain they have no good place to store their mounting food scraps — and collection can, at times, be annoying.

Here are some of the places where you can donate pre-loved clothes, shoes, furniture, and even electronic goods, and other ...

Food dehydrators, which dry and grind up food into soil-like grounds, have emerged as a way to keep food waste out of the garbage. Here’s how to use them.

but recycle on about 52% of them,” says Mitch Ratcliffe of recycling database, Earth 911. Instead of chucking them in the trash, recycle them. “Recycling a can saves 95% of the energy needed to make a ...

And for others, it feels like a tax on those with a disability who may generate more trash. But for those in the opposite camp, the bags help divert would-be waste to recycling bins, the cost ...

BRADDOCK, Pa. — Piles and piles of trash line June Way, an alleyway in Braddock. “This is from October,” neighbor Maurice Reynolds said. “It’s bags upon bags.” Neighbors said the ...