ARMED with litter pickers, gloves and rubbish bags, about 200 volunteers joined forces in a community clean-up event aimed at ...

Although plastics have benefits, including energy savings and resource conservation, the snag is that the rising plastic ...

This study traces the fifty-year evolution of Dhaka’s municipal solid waste governance, revealing a shift from informal, ...

A new tax that launched this year is funding dozens of workers doing cleanup and safety patrols downtown. They hope everyone ...

As Nashville has grown, so has its challenges — including how it takes out the trash. The new Department of Waste Services is aiming to solve it.

A small island in the Schuylkill River that can be seen when strolling along the path behind the Fairmount Water Works has been adopted by a local woman ...

Cast members include Mike Wolfe and Jersey Jon. “This isn’t your grandmother’s antiquing. ‘The American Pickers’ are on a ...

The city’s trash drop-off system was flawed, but it is a process that, if tweaked, polished, and normalized, could lead us to ...

Most commercial buildings, restaurants, and big apartment complexes use private haulers to collect their trash. That made a ...

A union representing thousands of city workers in Philadelphia and the city have reached a deal to end a more than weeklong ...

It takes less energy to turn scrap metal into new steel, so the pickers are helping reduce carbon emissions with their work in addition to cleaning up metals that would otherwise pollute the city.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Dozens of Colombian waste pickers inundated Bogota’s iconic Bolivar Square with about 15 tons of recyclable goods Tuesday to protest decreasing income and tougher ...