If the benefit to our environment isn’t enough to get some people to recycle, Georgia Tech’s Valerie Thomas has come up with the concept of offering a cash incentive enabled by “Smart Trash”. The ...

Instead of paying a waste disposal fee, how about paying by the bag? Instead of paying a waste disposal fee, how about paying by the bag? A company that's already working with New England cities to ...

Volvo has just announced a new joint venture product that aims to develop small, quiet robots that pick up your trash. Dubbed ROAR, for Robot-based Autonomous Refuse handling, the robots act as ...

The Ridge Road trash-burning power plant is indeed a boondoggle, as Randy Cunningham states in his recent letter. You only need to travel 150 miles down Interstate 71 to Columbus and ask city leaders ...

BANGALORE: A variation of the age-old concept of composting household garbage, using cheap earthen pots, is turning into a runaway success in this fast-expanding metropolis of seven million people.

This concept garbage can/dust bin is made of thick, deformable silicone, and when it starts getting full, you can squish it down and compact the trash at the bottom. I mean sure, you could just stomp ...