People sort and collect plastic garbage as a part of a campaign marking the upcoming World Environment Day, observed annually ...

You’re not smiling at me because you want to “brighten my day”. You’re smiling because you were running through the store and ...

Trucks like this collect trash from people's homes and businesses. This garbage is called municipal solid waste. Most garbage in this community goes to a dump also known as a sanitary landfill.

On a Thursday morning in Portland’s Old Town neighborhood, two dozen people mill around a warehouse, waiting for the results ...

4-year-old Alan spent the day as a garbage collector at his local Waste Management branch on July 10 Athena Sobhan is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously appeared ...