For some homeowners, the city’s backup plan is not much of a solution. Edward Johnson, who lives in northwest Houston, told ...

Sanitation trucks play a vital role in municipal waste management around the world. They matter especially in China. The ...

A private garbage truck rammed into a car in East Harlem Tuesday, sending both vehicles careening into scaffolding that collapsed on a woman, gruesomely killing her, police and witnesses said. The ...

A quick-thinking driver definitely could not be accused of adding fuel to the fire, as he quickly tipped his garbage truck’s load when he spotted that the trash had started to burn. The driver of the ...

Garbage trucks are looking and sounding very different these days for some neighborhoods in Central Oregon. The familiar roar of an oncoming truck and its accompanying belch of diesel smoke is being ...

Maria Rubalcava was involved in a fatal collision at around 7:56 a.m. in the 600 block of S. Shelton Street, Santa Ana, on Wednesday, Nov. 19 Getty A 69-year-old woman was fatally struck by a trash ...

A Long Island garbage truck driver was killed in a single-vehicle crash Thursday. “Xavier Angulo Espinoza was driving a garbage truck eastbound on Sunrise Highway Service Road, near Southern State ...

Called a front loader, the machine lifts and dumps larger trash containers used at businesses and apartment buildings over the front of truck using automated forks. The new system is meant to be safer ...

Debris from a garbage truck is engulfed in flames after likely starting from a lithium-ion battery at the City of Lake Forest Compost and Recycling Center, 1381 Kennedy Road, on Saturday afternoon. | ...

The Philadelphia Police Department is searching for a matte black trash truck and its driver in connection to illegal dumping in the city, officials said. The truck was part of an incident where trash ...