Palestinians in the West Bank live amid garbage following Israeli restrictions. Two Palestinian entrepreneurs are trying to ...

A door-to-door waste collector pushes his cart in front of a house in Jakarta Indonesia, on May 4. BAY ISMOYO/AFP Jakarta now requires households to sort their trash for composting and recycling, and ...

Many homeowners simply don’t realize that some common household items are illegal to throw away! Here's what the Minnesota ...

San Diego’s new $43.60 monthly fee for trash collection at single-family homes will be collected twice a year along with property taxes to shrink billing costs and make it less likely customers won’t ...

At just 12 years old, Syazwan Luftan Riady started a grassroots nonprofit of young people in East Java province focused on ...

Houston Mayor John Whitmire unveiled a $7.5 billion budget that slashes a projected $181 million shortfall without raising the property tax rate next year, but his plan to plug budget holes through ...

Residents in unincorporated parts of Leon County could see their annual trash disposal fee double under a proposal headed to county commissioners. If approved, the solid waste assessment on affected ...

Out in the Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and California, is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirl of plastic trash more than twice the size of Texas. As pieces of plastic tumble against each other, ...

Bali is grappling with a waste crisis as landfill restrictions have disrupted garbage collection, leaving rubbish accumulating in the streets of the Indonesian tourist hotspot. At the centre of the ...