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How to compost your pumpkin and do a gourd thing for the planet

  • Nov 1, 2024

New campaign on UES urges dog owners to pick up after their pets

  • Jun 13, 2023

Save money, help fight climate change in your kitchen this holiday

  • Dec 20, 2022

Volunteer describes efforts to maintain abandoned NJ cemetery

  • Nov 21, 2022

Body found at site of massive fire at NJ waste facility

  • May 11, 2022

1 worker missing after massive fire breaks out at waste facility in NJ

  • May 11, 2022

NYC trash bin pilot program aims to curb garbage piles on streets

  • Apr 20, 2022

NJ Assemblyman proposes bill to reduce shipping materials

  • Feb 21, 2022

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New campaign on UES urges dog owners to pick up after their pets

  • Jun 13, 2023
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Volunteer describes efforts to maintain abandoned NJ cemetery

  • Nov 21, 2022
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Body found at site of massive fire at NJ waste facility

  • May 11, 2022
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1 worker missing after massive fire breaks out at waste facility in NJ

  • May 11, 2022
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Heavy smoke spews from fire at waste management facility in NJ

  • May 10, 2022
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NYC trash bin pilot program aims to curb garbage piles on streets

  • Apr 20, 2022
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Concerns after spike in COVID found in U.S. sewage systems

  • Mar 15, 2022
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RECYCLING & REDUCING RECIDIVISM: San Francisco furniture company believes in second chances

  • Apr 23, 2021

Latest Stories

2 New York City businesses going packaging-free in effort to reduce waste

While some waste from a trip to the grocery store gets recycled, most ends up in the landfill. But two local businesses are hoping to change that.

  • Jan 30, 2019

New Jersey 'pooperintendent' accused of public defecation pleads guilty

Authorities had accused Thomas Tramaglini of repeatedly defecating on the track at Holmdel High School. But at a municipal court hearing Wednesday, he only admitted to defecating under the high school's bleachers.

  • Oct 24, 2018

New Jersey superintendent accused of defecating on track to receive $100,000

A New Jersey school superintendent who resigned after he was accused of repeatedly defecating on another high school's track will receive more than $100,000 from his school district.

  • Aug 14, 2018
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Alabama endures New York City 'poop train' that 'smells like death'

A stinking trainload of human waste from New York City is stranded in a tiny Alabama town, spreading a stench like a giant backed-up toilet.

  • Apr 18, 2018

Neighbors raising a stink over smelly garbage transfer station in Brooklyn

People living in the East Williamsburg neighborhood say they are tired of the smell and noise from a garbage transfer station.

  • Sep 2, 2017