The number of fatalities in the waste and recycling industry increased in 2013 to 33 from 26 in 2012, and the industry moved up to the fifth most dangerous profession from sixth the previous year, according to a new government report...

Producers’ and consumers’ assumptions are hurting single-stream recycling.

Richard Burke, Advanced Disposal’s newly minted CEO, discusses what’s in store for the waste and recycling giant.

Waste Management Inc. is realigning its structure, as part of that, William Caesar, president of WM Recycle America LLC and WM Organic Growth Inc., has left the company...

California’s Senate passed its plastic bag ban bill, sending it to the governor for signature to become the United States’ first statewide ban of single-use shopping bags...

Our “Mr. Murph” sprawls out like a green leviathan across the floor...

Cities and states across the country are setting increasingly ambitious goals when it comes to handling municipal solid waste. A handful of cities have set zero-waste goals. Others are not going that far, but are looking to divert the majority of...

Waste Management Inc. has filed a lawsuit against the city of Oakland for contracting with a competitor for waste and recycling pickup, a contract worth $1 billion...

All eyes are on New York and Los Angeles to see how franchising agreements affect waste and recycling collection.

When we left off in our last column with the story of the Maine geologist Clifford Lippitt, he had been hauled before a state licensing board on charges of professional incompetence based on his allegedly flawed interpretation of groundwater...