Maine considers requiring drug companies to take back unused medicines and safely discard them The federal government advises throwing most unused or expired ...
Garbage to gas: Landfill energy projects on rise as government seeks to cut greenhouse gases Hundreds of trash trucks across California are rumbling ...
JARDIM GRAMACHO, BRAZIL - DECEMBER 09: A teenager who makes his living picking through trash pauses while working at the Jardim Gramacho waste disposal site on December 9, 2009 in Jardim Gramacho, Brazil. Referred to as the largest open-air landfill in Latin ...
In an attempt to help curb the city's stifling pollution and meet their energy needs too, a few Cairo families have begun to recycle waste -- now that the nation's pigs are gone -- by generating biogas from rubbish. It is an ...
Governor hopes his recycling plan creates jobs, attracts business CARSON CITY Gov. Jim Gibbons wants to require that 75 percent of all waste material in Nevada be recycled, an ambitious proposal that trash haulers say would lead to higher rates but that ...
Chris Detweiler is Republic Services of Southern NevadaÕs material recovery facility division manager. In laymanÕs terms heÕs in charge of recycling in Clark County. He is also a decorated former Marine who started his waste management career in 1991 as a trash ...
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Philadelphia residents are learning that it pays to recycle. The City of Brotherly Love launched what officials said on Thursday was America's largest program to give residents a financial incentive to recycle paper, plastic, glass and aluminum. Residents can ...
Rubbish collection - Chinese style A 'bendy' Garbage truck works its route in Tianhe, China, collecting household waste in 12 small barrows, all pulled in a chain by a van. **Not Available for publication in China, Available for the rest of the ...
Promisingly for Nevada, planned show plant aims to turn waste from other places into energy Californians are planning on dumping more of their garbage in Nevada, and federal law says Nevada cant simply ban it, officials say. So Gov. Jim Gibbons and ...
Downside to economic boom: China wonders what to do with all its garbage Visitors can smell this village long before they see it. More than 100 dump trucks piled high with garbage line the narrow road leading to Zhanglidong, waiting to empty ...
China's increasing prosperity and urbanism create tons of garbage, causing tons of trouble Visitors can smell this village long before they see it. More than 100 dump trucks piled high with garbage line the narrow road leading to Zhanglidong, waiting to empty ...
Oklahoma lawmaker to propose 5-cent bottle-deposit program to provide cash, reduce litter A state lawmaker hopes to implement a 5-cent beverage container deposit program in Oklahoma as a way to reduce litter and provide an infusion of much-needed cash for the budget. ...
