Bi-County Solid Waste Management has been using a shredder and $10 disposal fee to reduce the impact of thousands of mattresses that end up in landfills every year.

Local nonprofit Keep Austin Beautiful received a $10,000 grant to launch a program that will help three Austin schools learn ...

Even meat and bones can be dropped off at the Dartmouth transfer station with a wider range of food waste being accepted at the Crapo Hill Landfill serving Dartmouth and New Bedford. The pilot food ...

Rhode Island currently recycles plastic, aluminum, glass, cardboard, and may soon add textiles to that list. Under a new law ...

Engineers in Australia have developed a new building material with about one quarter of concrete's carbon footprint, while ...

Hundreds of litres of used cooking oil is disposed of every year as a by-product of making some of Australia's favourite ...

Too vast to comprehend, the volume of waste generated by Australia will soon also be beyond its capacity to deal with.

Most surrounding counties haul their waste somewhere else or participate in a regional landfill. But there are other choices.

New Hanover County residents can now find electronics, sporting equipment, furniture and more at a new facility dubbed "Treasure Island." The new program from New Hanover County Recycling and Solid ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- St. Joseph’s landfill is filling up fast, and the clock is ticking, with its projected lifespan being May 2047 according to landfill superintendent Darkota Cloud.