If your trash and recycling bins are already overflowing with cardboard boxes, glass bottles and debris from holiday ...

Household waste increases by 25% between Thanksgiving and New Years. Rules vary by municipality on what you can recycle and ...

Properly disposing of your holiday trash prevents putting yourself and others at unnecessary risk this time of year.

Can your old electronics go in the trash? The Free Press consulted an electronics recycling specialist to get some answers.

“Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, a new type on the streets of his native nineteenth-century Paris.

Bill Dawson doesn’t believe that there’s much recycling going on anymore in the Birmingham suburbs. “It’s a perplexing situation, because my neighbors think recycling is going on, and it seems like it ...