Every day, thousands of steel boxes roll off ships into American ports, treated as routine units of global trade. Researchers ...

The environmental commissioner urged the public on Wednesday to use carnival products responsibly during upcoming ...

The study underscores a broader concern. Researchers sound off about shipping containers imported to US following discovery ...

West Harlem, Morningside Heights, Manhattanville and Hamilton Heights are all part of the community district that became the first in the city to containerize 100% of its trash. As part of a pilot ...

The study found that veterans exposed to military burn pits had 3 times the level of carbon particles in their lungs compared ...

Domestic plastic burning is prevalent in cities around the world, fuelled by poor waste management, survey finds.

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Many California homeowners have to deal with sorting their garbage into three containers: one for trash, one for recyclables and another for organic waste. If you accidentally put the wrong item in ...

A new report argues the sanitation department isn’t going far enough in its effort to containerize all the city’s trash, noting the plan pushed under Mayor Eric Adams doesn’t cover the heaps of ...

SAN DIEGO — As the City of San Diego continues to roll out the new, gray trash bins to homeowners, the old black bins are being recycled, according to the city. In collaboration with Rehrig Pacific ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a settlement with Apple over “claims of violations of federal hazardous waste law”. Here are the details. Apple fined $261,283 as part of the ...