New Yorkers are required to compost all their organic waste under a sanitation department rule that went into effect back in ...

A new book shows how residents of wealthier nations are jeopardizing the health and safety of other parts of the planet.

The star of a press conference at the city dump Thursday afternoon was an unassuming green plastic bag that, in the ...

A pile of about 300 tons of inbound single stream recyclable trash is delivered for sorting at Sierra Processing. A recycling symbol is seen on a laundry detergent bottle in a bale of plastic for ...