Bad roads, heavy traffic from Cebu City to Consolacion and the lack of garbage trucks have worsened the delays in garbage collection in the barangays after the closure of the Inayawan sanitary landfill...

Dwindling budgets and skyrocketing costs have municipalities across North America looking to privatize city-run services, including solid waste and recycling...

Most people are familiar with Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, but many don’t know the speech he delivered the night before his assassination was delivered to striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee...

Under a new plan, the Sanitation Department trucks that will likely soon be parking in a new garage in Kips Bay could be sharing their home with biotech startups and health care companies...

As Vermont begins its big, statutorily mandated push toward universal recycling this year, state officials likely will be making a mainly environmental sales pitch...

A state law that was passed to encourage universal recycling could have the opposite of its intended effect in Hartford, where town leaders are seeking to scuttle the town’s curbside recycling program...

The Marquette City Commission Monday voted to terminate their agreement with the Marquette County Solid Waste Authority for a new recycling center. The agreement would have seen a new facility built off of McClellan avenue in the city...

A new partnership between the city of San Jose, GreenWaste Recovery and Goodwill of Silicon Valley will mean more jobs for the unemployed and an easier way for residents to dispose of mattresses...

The Pine Belt Regional Solid Waste Management Authority received a $160,783 grant to collect and dispose of waste tires from local, small-quantity generators. Continue reading at the Hattiesburg American    

Toronto has moved one step closer toward private garbage collection across the entire city...