A. Food that is vacuum sealed still needs to be stored in the fridge or freezer, but it can last much longer than food that is not sealed. Vacuum-sealed food lasts one to two weeks in the fridge and ...

Up until a few years ago, the municipal transfer station in Plympton, Massachusetts, had a problem: The residents of the small town were producing so much trash that it was putting a huge burden on ...

No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome.

“It virtually cut waste in half,” Rob Firlotte, Plympton’s highway superintendent, said of the results. In 2022, before the ...

A proposal in the state Legislature that would require a steep drop in non-recyclable packaging faces fierce opposition from ...

Cleanup crews that help clear the trash from IMS after the Indy 500 see old fried chicken, empty chip bags and beer cans. Lots and lots of beer cans.

The kangaroos were eating from the garbage. One kangaroo had its head stuck inside a bag of chips. It could not remove the bag and ran scared until a man helped.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a massive collection of marine debris, is now estimated to be twice the size of Texas!" Other iterations of the photo appeared in 2021 and throughout 2024.

A man threatened to kill two city workers collecting trash in Worcester Friday morning after a trash bag touched a car, ultimately leading to assault and drug charges, police said.

Based on the name of the recipe, I thought I would need a trash can (or enormous pot) to make these nachos. The recipe says a 110-ounce can or metal bucket works well, though that seems to be a ...

Overall in Concord, the pay-as-you-throw program and its iconic purple trash bags have become a fact of life regardless of how residents feel about them. Jenny Williams has a household of five and ...