The City of Houston is spending $2 million on outside help to pick up trash. Other advocates say the city needs to be spending vastly more, namely by implementing a solid waste fee.

The accumulation of solid waste in the world’s high mountain camping sites, base camps, and high camps has been a chronic problem facing alpine ecosystems since mountaineering first became popular in ...

Even amid rising grocery prices and increased sensitivity to environmental issues, Americans still trash once-edible food at alarming rates.

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 2, 2025 / The world doesn’t have a waste problem because it creates too ...

When you throw something in the garbage, chances are you never think about it again. But this trash doesn’t just magically disappear. Local governments have to determine how to dispose of the more ...

YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP via Getty Images The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers ...

Connecticut is facing a solid waste problem. “I hear from municipal leaders all over the state. The cost of shipping trash out of state, the cost of sending it to an incinerator is going up and up,” ...

New York State – like the rest of the nation – is grappling with a growing solid waste crisis. Americans have never really tackled the incredible amount of trash that the nation generates. And until ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Hailstone is a U.K-based reporter, who covers sustainability. A photo taken on September 27, 2022 shows a 6-metre-tall ...

One of the first meetings I was asked to attend as a new League of Women Voters of Broward County member was when Arcadis explained its analysis of Broward’s solid waste and recycling problem, in ...