Officials in Arlington Heights have found a cause for a garbage truck explosion that injured three first responders in ...

Ecogas is New Zealand's only plant of its kind processing food waste. Its co-founder says that's embarrassing.

Keeping a community clean as a sanitation worker qualifies you to be an everyday hero. Michael Smith does that by driving a big green garbage truck in Cedarburg every day.

San Diego officials are proposing a monthly full-service rate of $53 for trash pickup at single-family homes when the city starts charging this July for the previously free service. That would be the ...

With the construction of a massive new garbage incinerator in Miami-Dade County now in serious doubt, environmentalists and climate activists hope it will open the door for a waste disposal method ...

With the construction of a massive new garbage incinerator in Miami-Dade County now in serious doubt, environmentalists and climate activists hope it will open the door for a waste disposal method ...

A new study suggests cleaning up trash can help reduce dengue fever risks. This discovery gives communities hope as global dengue cases have risen due to changing climate conditions. As the Stanford ...

WHITEHALL, Ohio - Two Ohio sanitation workers escaped serious injury from an explosion in the back of a garbage truck this week. The dramatic blast and its aftermath was caught on camera.

EUGENE, Ore. – Firefighters were able to put out a fire in a garbage truck in a south Eugene neighborhood within minutes thanks to the assistance of the driver, Eugene Springfield Fire said. According ...

GRAFTON, Wis. (WFRV)—One village in Wisconsin is urging residents to be mindful when disposing of hot items, especially ashes after one resident’s garbage can was ruined and a fire started in ...

A trash truck barreled into the side of a home late Monday morning in the Rosemont housing community off State Hill Road in Spring Township, emergency officials said. The incident happened shortly ...

PERRY TOWNSHIP, Ohio — A man was flown to the hospital with life-threatening injuries Monday morning after a crash involving a garbage truck, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.