Many of us don’t give too much thought to what we put in the trash. Sure, we know we need to sort the recyclable items separately, but aside from that, we often lump everything else together and don’t ...

Imagine if each time you put out your garbage, you got billed. But, conversely, if you skipped a garbage day — you didn't get billed. It's an idea that could be coming to a back alley near you, as a ...

Ottawa residents might not need to put tags on all garbage bags after all, after a city committee failed to reach a consensus on how to move forward with a curbside strategy. Councillors spent six ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. The news that the city of Charlotte is thinking about adopting the pay-as-you-throw ...

It’s time to face the facts. You’re never going to fix those broken picture frames that have been collecting dust in the basement since you carted them from your last residence to your current one.

XPRESS digs up the facts, and find out what happens to bales of recycling junk Dubai residents are throwing away more garbage than ever before, but year-upon-year increases in per-person disposal ...

Like plenty of other Houstonians, you may have needed to call 311 to report missed trash and recycling pickups. But you may not have realized why our waste system feels broken. Houston is the only ...

Thousands of workers in the port city show up every day to collect trash and give the metropolis some semblance of cleanliness; however, they do their thankless job without any safety measures, which ...

LOS ANGELES – LeBron James is bad at free throws and he’s getting worse. He admitted as much a few weeks back – “I’m garbage, I suck from the free-throw line right now” — but realization hasn't led to ...