American household garbage increases by 25% over the holidays, but it doesn't have to tax the area's stressed trash disposal ...

Ah, the holidays—a time for celebration, family, and garbage. Lots of garbage. Lots of decorative garbage that lasts for up to a month or a day before meeting its end in the trash. According to the ...

Household waste increases by 25% between Thanksgiving and New Years. Rules vary by municipality on what you can recycle and ...

“Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, a new type on the streets of his native nineteenth-century Paris.