A garbage truck in Collier County recently caught fire due to a battery-powered child's toy that was placed on the curb with the battery still inside. According to the county, the battery ignited ...

Nearly three years after a fire destroyed the Doral incinerator that processed about half of Miami-Dade’s trash, county commissioners want to pursue building a new one in an industrial area near the ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — All lanes on Interstate 285 southbound are closed due to a vehicle on fire. Information at this time is limited as to the circumstances, but footage from Georgia Department of ...

Miami-Dade recently awarded three companies $100,000 each to pilot composting and waste-diversion technologies — the first meaningful step toward a true zero-waste system. These pilots will help ...

CITRUS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A garbage truck slammed into a mobile home in Hernando on Thursday morning following a fiery crash with a pumping truck. Around 6 a.m., the Florida Highway Patrol said a ...

A man was killed Wednesday at Yolo County Central Landfill after a dump truck inadvertently dropped its load onto another truck and the driver inside in what county officials are calling an industrial ...

THE FAA AND THE NTSB WILL NOW INVESTIGATE. CASS COUNTY DEPUTIES ARREST THIS OMAHA MAN WHO ALLEGEDLY STOLE A TRASH TRUCK. DEPUTIES SAY 35 YEAR-OLD TAYLOR SHANKS TRIED TO STEAL ALCOHOL FROM A LIQUOR ...

Eileen Higgins clinched victory in Miami’s mayoral runoff election, according to multiple reports, marking the first Democrat to win the office in almost 30 years and the first woman ever elected ...

Garbage trucks are looking and sounding very different these days for some neighborhoods in Central Oregon. The familiar roar of an oncoming truck and its accompanying belch of diesel smoke is being ...

Chopper 4 flew over the scene, where several people were seen being put inside ambulances. Trump admin sending Taliban $45M sparks Republican backlash After winning his first Oscar, Tom Cruise kept ...

Right now, an estimated 130 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the air, water, soil, and human bodies every year. By 2040, that number will jump to 280 million metric tons—about a garbage ...