Tag: trash

November 23, 2022

Visitors generated about 80,000 tons of solid waste at state parks in 2020, and much of it was comprised of plastics, according to the Department of the Interior. The research platform TrashBlitz annually utilizes its data to piece together a […]

October 19, 2022

As a means of bringing down NYC’s large rat population, the sanitization department has announced plans to implement new rules. The largest of these rules will be a requirement that residents and businesses are not allowed to take their trash […]

September 30, 2022

Glenwood Springs has decided to switch to a system that charges households for trash pickup based on the amount of trash they leave by the curb. This proposed change comes alongside one to offer free recycling. Though not passed yet, […]

September 20, 2022

The world may never reach zero waste, especially as production and consumption of convenient consumer products and their packaging surges. But a couple of guys in British Columbia are giving their best shot at eliminating a sizable chunk of that […]

March 8, 2021

Roosevelt, Washington hosts a large landfill, which is the source of pipeline-quality natural gas — enough for 19,000 homes to operate furnaces, stoves and water heaters daily. In other parts of the country the natural gas is produced by fracking, […]

March 2, 2021

Ten years ago, a few college students at the University of Maryland became keenly aware that huge volumes of untouched, perfectly good dining hall food was getting tossed in the trash, and they teamed up to do something about it. […]

October 12, 2020

Residents of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky have not been disposing their waste properly. Beginning October 1, City officials have enacted new regulations for storage, handling, collection and disposal of trash. New provisions include: all trash should be placed in containers or […]

September 2, 2020

The numbers are in: Kansas City residents discarded 25,725 tons of waste from May to July, a year-over-year increase of 5,000 tons. Add Kansas City to the list of places where the COVID-19 pandemic is creating big changes in the […]

August 21, 2020

Republic Services has been tapped to manage the trash and recycling in Washington City, Utah. The ten-year agreement is raising concerns with council members about the opt-out option to the recycling program for residents. However, the city council is concerned […]

June 26, 2020

A Kentucky teenager noticed trash volume building in his neighborhood as people quarantined during the COVID pandemic and decided take action and make a few bucks at the same time. Ross Millet, who will be a senior at Bowling Green […]

June 24, 2020

Meridian Waste, an integrated, non-hazardous solid waste services company, has been voted the Nassau County Record’s Best Trash Company 2020. “We have a hardworking team and couldn’t be happier to be recognized as the Best Trash Company in Nassau County,” […]

June 19, 2020

In both the U.S. and Europe “incinerators are becoming the most viable option for many municipalities to deal with much of their garbage.” This is partly due to the challenges associated with recycling coupled with the fact that many landfills […]

June 5, 2020

The Los Angeles Department of Public Works said that its staff and hundreds of volunteers collected nearly 400 tons of trash between Friday and Tuesday, after recent protests against police brutality. “As we continue to provide services and support during […]

May 13, 2020

More Americans are home and it ultimately results in more residential waste and a higher cost for haulers. Devina Rankin from Waste Management talked about charging cities and towns more to pick up their trash and recyclables as a result […]

March 30, 2020

Scientists at the University of Miami in Florida are creating mathematical models to predict how wind, current and buoyancy help determine the speed and direction of trash in the ocean. The models, which are being tested by buoys, aim to […]

March 2, 2020

Florida County commissioners have voted for a new trash contract with Waste Management at a 39 percent rate increase. Under the new contract, the annual bill for trash collection at a single family home will jump to an estimated $194.28 […]

February 6, 2020

Earlier this week, the Glendale, Calif., City Council voted to move another step forward in its transition to a waste collection franchise system. Councilmen moved forward with a vetting process for trash hauling companies interested in securing a 10-year contract […]

February 6, 2020

A new report by PIX 11 takes an in-depth look at where all of New York City’s trash goes and how it’s impacting other communities. Since 2001, New York City has been shipping its refuse to communities across the country—in […]

January 21, 2020

Malaysia announced it has returned 150 containers of plastic waste to the countries from which they were illegally imported. On January 20, the country’s Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin said she ordered 3,737 metric tons of trash to be returned […]

August 27, 2019

On various sidewalks throughout downtown Chicago, the city has installed solar-powered, self-compacting garbage bins to keep the city clean. However, many of those bins are broken, rusting and overflowing. Back in 2011, the city purchased 400 BigBelly solar-powered trash bins […]