A panel of waste management experts presented a grim picture of the challenges and rising costs facing municipalities and property owners over Long Island’s mounting garbage crisis. The event titled ...

DONGAN HILLS, Staten Island (WABC) -- Neighbors are fuming over trash bags piling up outside their homes on Staten Island and are wondering if a work slowdown is to blame. "It's garbage. Eventually it ...

Residents in Newark say they are frustrated after garbage along their block has not been collected for nearly three weeks, leaving trash piling up and attracting rodents. Bags of garbage line North ...

Located off the coast of the Ieura Port in Japan’s Teshima Island is Tashima Factory. What was once an ironworks factory — later called “Garbage Island” for a scourge of industrial waste and illegal ...

In one of my first stories for SURFER, I wrote The World’s First Zero-Waste Island. As you could assume it was about the process of Tilos Island, Greece to completely eliminate waste. Even though the ...