The City of Columbia was recently awarded a $425,000 Waste Reduction Grant to expand its recycling truck fleet.

Residents of 17 participating municipalities will receive new 95-gallon wheeled carts with lids, replacing current blue ...

11 Investigates found out that brand new electric recycling trucks purchased by the city of Pittsburgh have been sitting at a dealership for nearly a year. With a broken and aging refuse fleet ...

On the Cassowary Coast, south of Cairns, a recycling truck’s entire load had to be sent to landfill due to contamination. Inside the truck were items that had been wrongfully put inside yellow ...

Keep at least 15 feet from service trucks. Never climb on the truck. Do not play or stand in or around waste and recycling bins or cans, since you may not know when the truck is coming to empty them.

“If there's an alternative that doesn't generate waste, then use that.” What's it like driving a recycling truck? (Spencer, first grade, Vero Beach, Florida) “You're sitting up really high ...

After the load from the recycling truck is tipped onto the floor, it is pushed onto a conveyor where people remove contaminants like those plastic bags and obvious trash. The conveyor moves along ...

Doug Jennings, the recycling plant manager, countered that stockpiling isn’t the word he would use, because the bales stored outside were “simply waiting for trucks to show up. We had trucks ...

a reduction from multiple recycling bins down to one and the possibility of the need for a new single-stream recycling truck. The changes are driven by likely adjustments with Jefferson County’s waste ...

Driving on U.S. roads, it's not uncommon to see trucks from Peterbilt, Kenworth, and Freightliner. After all, they're known for their American roots, readily available parts and support ...