HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Across the city, Houstonians say they are facing backlogs and delays in heavy trash and yard waste pick-up. To improve this problem, the city has hired contractors and added ...

NORFOLK, Va. — No one was injured in a trash truck fire in Norfolk’s Ocean View area on Wednesday morning. The fire happened around 12:39 p.m. in the 200 block of East Ocean View Avenue. It appeared ...

One person is dead following a pedestrian crash involving a garbage truck in Westland. The incident took place about 5:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 22, on Akron Court in the Norwayne neighborhood, confirmed ...

A private garbage truck rammed into a car in East Harlem Tuesday, sending both vehicles careening into scaffolding that collapsed on a woman, gruesomely killing her, police and witnesses said. The ...

A woman was killed when a private garbage truck crashed into a car in East Harlem early Tuesday, sending the vehicle into a sidewalk shed that collapsed on top of her, authorities said. The crash ...

MADDIE. LOOKING FORWARD TO THE END OF THIS BITTER COLD. THANKS LUKE OMAHA FIRE BATTLED A MASSIVE TRASH FIRE IN WEST OMAHA TODAY. AFD SAYS THE FIRE STARTED IN A GARBAGE TRUCK NEAR 182ND AND CAPITAL OMA ...

CITRUS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A garbage truck slammed into a mobile home in Hernando on Thursday morning following a fiery crash with a pumping truck. Around 6 a.m., the Florida Highway Patrol said a ...

THE FAA AND THE NTSB WILL NOW INVESTIGATE. CASS COUNTY DEPUTIES ARREST THIS OMAHA MAN WHO ALLEGEDLY STOLE A TRASH TRUCK. DEPUTIES SAY 35 YEAR-OLD TAYLOR SHANKS TRIED TO STEAL ALCOHOL FROM A LIQUOR ...

The outlook is grim, but a new report lays out a path to nearly eradicate plastic packaging pollution within the next 15 years. Reading time 2 minutes Around the world, plastic is falling through the ...

Garbage trucks are looking and sounding very different these days for some neighborhoods in Central Oregon. The familiar roar of an oncoming truck and its accompanying belch of diesel smoke is being ...

Right now, an estimated 130 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the air, water, soil, and human bodies every year. By 2040, that number will jump to 280 million metric tons—about a garbage ...

A 41-year-old driver was killed after he crashed into the back of a disabled truck on Interstate 80 in Roxbury early Friday, officials said. Michael Murphy was driving east at 5:20 a.m. when he hit ...