I can not remember the last time I paid for a small sized garbage bag.” Woman reveals simple money-saving hack to repurpose ...

A 2016 behavioral economics study found that when consumers think their waste might be recycled, they worry less about the ...

An endangered tropical plant that emits the stench of a rotting corpse during its rare blooms has begun to flower in a ...

It's one thing to want to live a low-waste lifestyle, but it's another thing to actually take the steps necessary to live it. Frankly, it's hard living a low-waste lifestyle, since so many essential ...

An order issued by the town of Phillipsburg on Jan. 13. requires each resident to use a rigid trash bin capped with a tightly sealed lid for garbage collection -- no more loose bags. Resident Matthew ...

In their space-starved apartments, residents complain they have no good place to store their mounting food scraps — and collection can, at times, be annoying.

One Tucson recycling center has closed and another is threatened, even as the city builds a facility for reusing plastic ...

I’m a dedicated recycler. I fret when I see people throwing garbage in with soda cans and empty water bottles. I’ve even been ...

Granted, the success of recycling plastic is abysmal — the U.S. rate is roughly 7% — but in theory it can be done. So, I was delighted when I learned that Tucson, Arizona, where I live, was starting a ...

New York City first began curbside residential organic waste pick-up in Queens and Brooklyn a few years before city-wide pick ...