Though their politics are very different, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Waukesha County Executive Dan Vrakas on Tuesday, April 14th teamed up for a ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating a new joint city/county recycling facility located in the...
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The Kankakee County Board voted 14-10 on Tuesday to keep the door open to garbage from Cook County — but likely not to proposals for landfills...
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Cape Girardeau, Mo., is building a new waste transfer station to handle the city’s solid waste...
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With city workers threatening to go on strike, Los Angeles public works commissioners agreed Monday to give city officials the authority to hire outside contractors to pick up solid waste and perform other critical jobs if necessary...
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The Town Council voted 6-1 Monday to go along with other Orange County governments and charge a flat $103 fee next year for recycling...
Sofa sets, trash bags and broken plastic bins. Items that belong in a landfill are piling up on county roads all throughout Marion County and residents say they're tired of it...
About 40 residents got their chance Monday to talk about an ambitious goal of increasing municipal recycling from the current 20 percent to 80 percent...
Los Angeles officials said garbage collection this week will be back on schedule, with crews having worked late Friday and all day Saturday to clear a backlog of uncollected trash caused by a wildcat job action that saw about 60 percent of...
The Santa Fe Solid Waste Management Agency could be taking its recycling program on the road...
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency frowns on the local power struggle that is going on over Medina County's future recycling plans, according to EPA solid waste planner Christopher Germain...
