A trash compactor rolls over an active dump site at Pioneer Crossing Landfill in Birdsboro, Pa. Natalie Kolb/MediaNews ...

The City of Winnipeg plans to test solar-powered garbage and recycling compactors in an effort to save fuel and money — and eventually reduce the number of overflowing litter bins. A new report to ...

A compactor flattens truckloads of waste at the Boone County Landfill. Administrator John Roosa says the landfill receives 200-500 tons of waste per day. Every week on trash day, truckloads of waste ...

A dog was seriously injured after it was found in a trash compactor in Austin The dog's owner claims a dispute with friends ended with her dog being found in the trash compactor The dog survived but ...

Flies hover around heaps of rotting waste a few metres from Christian Mbalisigwe’s point-of-sale (POS) stand at the Jakande roundabout in Ejigbo, Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area in Lagos State. As ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Residents of the Reserve at Lake Ridge subdivision in Riverdale, Georgia, are complaining about a reportedly broken trash ...

"It's horrible, it's gagging me, it's making me sick to my stomach," resident Patricia McCoy told the outlet. Fellow resident Cheryl Caldwell added, "It's all the trash and filth that's over there ...

CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. - A broken trash compactor has turned a Clayton County townhome community into an unbearable, foul-smelling health hazard, according to furious residents who claim their homeowners ...

Homeowners in a Clayton County subdivision say they are trapped in dangerous, unsanitary conditions caused by a broken trash compactor that has left garbage piling up for months. Infuriated residents ...

The settlement concludes an eight-year investigation, during which district attorneys’ offices reviewed contents of dumpsters and found over 10,000 paper records containing patient health information.

Every day, workers at a garbage transfer station near Yellowstone National Park clock in with a troubling question on their minds. Will today be the day we inhale a freshly exploded can of bear spray?