Lloyd Fox / Baltimore Sun Residents in two Baltimore neighborhoods received large plastic trash cans on wheels as part of a pilot program aimed at creating a cleaner and healthier city. By Yvonne ...

Officials are instructing households with municipal garbage service to reserve a bulk setout pickup if they can’t fit all of their trash in the 96-gallon wheeled cans provided by the city.

Residents of a street in Hell's Kitchen are experimenting with putting their trash in metal containers as part of a new pilot program. The metal bins for residential trash and recyclables were ...

Floating at the side of a river that winds through densely populated neighborhoods in Panama City, a 52-foot-long robotic “trash wheel” sucks up plastic from the water and pulls it up a ...

Hundreds of volunteers sifted through tons of garbage grub from Mr. Trash Wheel on Saturday to record data about litter in Baltimore city's harbor.

Oceans of plastic The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is twice the size of Texas, is the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in the world.

And while plastic littering the ocean typically receives more attention, coastal trash can also have serious negative effects on local wildlife.

Mayor Eric Adams has made containerizing the city’s trash a priority of his administration, and has long-promised the program outlined in DSNY’s rule proposal.

In the short term, recycling might be the best option we have against our growing waste crisis.

A recent study of ocean trash counted a staggering 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic at loose in the seas. Here's what we know—and don't know—so far.

Plastic trash flowing into the seas will nearly triple by 2040 without drastic action An ambitious plan, two years in the making, might have the solution.