For more than 15 years a city initiative has helped keep leftover paint and other hazardous household materials out of the waste stream and make them available for others to use. It’s called the ...

Chemicals used in food packaging and linked with health problems have been detected in the human body. The chemicals can move ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency noted the steel treating facility is "in a community with potential environmental justice concerns." ...

The Oswego County Department of Solid Waste encourages residents to bring their unwanted chemicals, pesticides and other hazardous waste products to the Oswego County Household ...

By Amy-Lynn Albertson North Carolina Cooperative Extension Instead of spring cleaning, it’s time for some fall purging. Oct. 7-11 is Spruce Up Week in Salisbury. During Spruce Up Weeks, City of ...

The Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority’s Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) facility will be closing for the 2024 season on ...

DETROIT -- The federal government has stopped sending hazardous waste to a Michigan landfill from Ohio, a ripple effect after a judge intervened in a different matter and suspended plans for waste ...

You don't want the effort you take to recycle to go to waste. Follow some simple steps to make sure your recycling metals are processed correctly.

Before the recent Quincy Fire burned 85 acres east of Oroville and the Park Fire spread into four counties, the Thompson Fire ravaged multiple neighborhoods and homes throughout northeast Oroville.

The water pumps which carry wastewater were turned off that morning to prevent overflow, the report said. The waste in the ...

Officials are warning people to stay out of the ocean at several beaches in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia after they say medical waste, including hypodermic needles, washed ashore. Assateague Island ...

"Before these incinerators were built, facilities were directly burning waste, which is dangerous to the environment, we also ...