This was the germ of my idea, that the city had a garbage footprint, that we were eight million people in a very small place and had no place nearby to put our garbage. "So that was the germ of the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Recently, a new class of muckrakers has investigated the hidden infrastructures that ...

For generations, a handful of neighborhoods, including the South Bronx, southeast Queens and Williamsburg, Brooklyn, have been subjected to the incessant rumble and pollution of garbage trucks from ...

Shirley Manson, the smart, no-nonsense Scottish-born singer in Garbage, nearly lost her voice and her band two years ago. Now she can almost laugh about it. “This stuff we’re talking about, it’s all ...

HOUMA -- Many Terrebonne Parish residents can expect to pay more in 2005 for garbage and sewer services. The higher fees approved by the Terrebonne Parish Council in November went into effect over the ...