Waste Management of Illinois is looking to build a 31,000-square-foot transfer facility and a 3,500-square-foot recycling ...

The longtime Hinsdale resident’s company was first based in Chicago and then in Oak Brook. He also was a major donor to St. Olaf College.

Anticipating how the environmental movement would affect trash disposal in the United States, he built a 12-truck garbage ...

Adopting a maintenance-first strategy and managing operations in a system that can adapt, scale, and evolve alongside the ...

The South Dakotan took over a family trash business and made it the nation’s biggest.

NBA arenas are cutting waste with recycling, composting, and donations—keeping tons out of landfills while helping ...

Students in Orange County will soon have access to “Project Zero Waste,” a free kindergarten-through-12th-grade curriculum focused on recycling, composting and environmental sustainability through a ...

As waste collection demands grow more complex, organizations are turning to intelligent route planning to improve efficiency, ...

Consumer Reports experts tested to find leaf bags that are less likely to puncture or tear, making your yard work that much ...

Waste management is going digital, making it easier than ever to track pickups, pay bills, and manage services right from your phone or computer. From the My WM app to vendor self-service portals, ...

620 kilograms of waste per year equals to approximately five handheld computer games thrown away per day! Anything that is unwanted or unused and subsequently discarded by the consumer can be ...

May 12, 2026 Researchers created a special kind of algae that can grab microscopic plastic pollution out of water almost like a magnet. The algae produce limonene, an orange-scented oil that helps ...