Nearly every day an armada of garbage and recycling trucks rumbles through the streets of New York, picking up from businesses an estimated 37,500 tons of waste and recyclables for transport to ...

With deadlines for meeting state and local recycling goals fast approaching, many local governments see material recovery from commercial sources as key to reaching those goals, as tonnages from ...

A group supporting a plan to radically revamp New York's commercial waste-collection industry has found that recycling has hit a wall, despite enforcement of new Department of Sanitation rules aimed ...