Joneca Company must add disclaimers on its sales materials and packaging that market its garbage disposals with horsepower designations, a panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled, upholding the lower court’s ...

The City of Houston is spending $2 million to contract outside help in trash pickups. Craig Semiens was finishing his shift as a city trash collector when he jumped on a Zoom call, painting a dire ...

Discarded electronic waste containing earth minerals is overtaking landfills globally at an alarming rate as much of the tech industry and enterprises kick the disposal problem to the curb. Meanwhile, ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday ripped Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., as “garbage” and said Somalis should “go back to where they came from,” in disparaging remarks that have been strongly criticized by ...

Thanksgiving is just days away, and Renoites hosting the annual holiday feast may be tempted to put food scraps into the garbage disposal. But not every food is disposal-friendly. Starchy foods, ...

Accumulations of trash lie below the tranquil waters of Lake Malawi National Park, a problem local environmentalists say likely extends throughout Lake Malawi, the world’s fourth-largest freshwater ...

An estimated 5 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment sit at the bottom of the Detroit and Rouge rivers, slowly seeping pollution into the ecosystem and the fish people snag from the treasured ...

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Wisconsinite drummer Butch Vig, Nebraskan guitarist Duke Erikson, and Minnesotan guitarist Steve Marker met in the late ’70s in Madison, Wisconsin. Although Erikson and Vig’s bands Spooner and Fire ...

The Olympic, a retired Washington state ferry, is abandoned off Ketron Island in the Puget Sound. State officials cannot remove the vessel due to its large size and location on private property. For ...

If all follows schedule, the state will have on hand 16 newly constructed hybrid-electric ferries in about 15 years as it moves to replace its diesel-powered fleet by 2040. Washington’s efforts to ...