If only the story had ended there. Despite that legislative success, the poorer nations of the world have never stopped being ...

One of the biggest recycling misconceptions is assuming the recycling facility can easily separate items placed in the bin, says Jay Simmons, packaging product development manager from North Pacific ...

About 5,000 of the “trash cans of tomorrow” are already deployed. Any delay in the replacement of the metal cans could mean more meals for rats. “The problem with the wire mesh basket is it ...

Ever looked at a pile of trash and thought, “Wow ... to reduce the consumption of single-use plastic and practice waste segregation so that plastic can be recycled,” Singh says. B Gowtham, a ...

With the rise of ‘Return and Earn’ schemes, more people are collecting empty cans for cash, but is it legal to take them from someone else’s bin? Some individuals even go onto private property to ...

Read on to see them all, and while you’re at it, consider a compost bin. Update on January 30, 2025: Updated prices and checked stock for all products. The capacity of a trash can refers to how ...

Sweden has long had a can and bottle deposit system that gives people money back when they recycle – since 1984 for aluminium cans, and since 1994 for plastic bottles. Each year Swedes recycle more ...

Police in Greece are investigating the Saturday discovery of a 2,000-year-old statue in a black bag near some trash cans in a suburban municipality in the Thessaloniki region. An unnamed 32-year-old ...

Drones used for busting barricaded suspects and teen subway surfers could one day monitor New Yorkers’ garbage, too. The city Department of Sanitation is considering whether to enlist a fleet of ...

A headless statue believed to be 2,000 years old has been found inside a black plastic bag near trash cans in Greece, prompting a police investigation. A 32-year-old local found the statue on Jan ...

Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The organized ...