Pay-as-you-throw is a policy that charges people for the amount of trash they toss out. It’s also sometimes called variable-rate pricing or pay-as-you-waste. Many cities and towns around the world, ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Waste Management has agreed to pay the federal government $5.5 million to settle allegations that it made a practice of using labor in the U.S. illegally. The U.S. Attorney's Office in ...

Connecticut legislators have been told for years that a key to solving the state’s waste crisis and lowering costs is to get food scraps out of the waste stream going to the platoon of plants burning ...

ST. THOMAS — Areas of St. Thomas are seeing collection delays at waste bin sites, while a waste contractor said Tuesday that Waste Management authorities are promising to figure out how to pay vendors ...

Despite facing a bevy of fiscal woes, the V.I. Waste Management Authority plans to shell out millions of dollars to install and operate an untested solid waste reduction system at the Anguilla ...