With the Lehigh Valley facing the impacts of a major snowstorm, area municipalities are postponing scheduled trash and recycling pickups. Many of the affected pickups were scheduled during the brunt ...

Officials say a massive avalanche of garbage at Indonesia’s largest landfill has killed at least five people and left several others missing after heavy overnight rain triggered the collapse.

A council has confirmed when changes to its food waste recycling service will come into force. Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council said its new weekly food waste collection will take effect from ...

More than a quarter of English councils will miss an official deadline to introduce weekly food waste collections to all homes, a BBC investigation has found. The Department for Environment, Food & ...

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Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into something productive. Across the United States, about 97 million metric tons of ...

Northumberland residents who persistently put contaminated waste in their recycling bins will see their bins issued with red tags and could even see their recycling service suspended “indefinitely”.