WILMETTE, IL — The overhaul of the village's waste management system is underway as part of the launch of a new contract with Lakeshore Recycling Systems, or LRS, to handle garbage, recycling ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — Decatur waste haulers are giving local customers new garbage totes as part of recent City ordinance changes. The ordinance, adopted last month, now requires residents to ...

There's more to play than Metaphor and Dragon Ball this weekend Get ready to do some cooking, navigate a maze, build a fence, and more Dumpsters, garbage carts, and big vacuums to suck up Mako ...

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

Consider the environment within the average in-sink garbage disposal: It’s cool, dark, and moist, and there’s a near constant influx of food that gets shredded and scattered about. No wonder ...

The U.S. is known as the land of mass consumption, and all of the leftover eventually ends up in the same place: the trash can. Everything about the waste management sector in the U.S. is big.

We figure that it takes about 15 seconds to pick up trash at one residence, but there are many factors that can complicate this. Some of our residents are unable to put their carts out due to age ...

Both proposals included similar services (automated cart collection and bulk waste limited to two items twice each year). Only Burgmeier’s (winning contractor) proposal included the collection ...

Oct. 24, 2024 — Approximately 71 to 95 million people in the Lower 48 states -- more than 20% of the country's population -- may rely on groundwater that contains detectable concentrations of ...

As many writers of letters to the Mosman Daily asked, “Why should the people of Mosman tolerate an incinerator in any part of their marvellous suburb, with its odours, fumes and garbage carts?” ...

Sean was just hours old when he was left inside a dirty garbage dumpster to die. "I was a mistake that wasn't supposed to be here," said Sean. "I was somebody's unwanted, garbage." He survived ...

How Much Does a Garbage Collector Make? Garbage Collectors made a median salary of $43,540 in 2022. The best-paid 25% made $53,800 that year, while the lowest-paid 25% made $34,040. The ...