Seven recycling trucks were destroyed by fire last year when residents made the mistake of putting lithium-ion batteries and other dangerous materials into their curbside recycling containers for ...

Garbage trucks now do more than just pick up tossed-out food scraps and junk. They also snitch on people with unkempt lawns.  In at least four states (California, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas), some ...

Garbage trucks don't just haul away our rubbish — they break it up and compress it, making room for the huge volumes they collect every day. To do this, they sometimes use a blade that rotates quickly ...

Leipzig’s 16 hydrogen refuse trucks achieved only 45.6% deployment after two years, while battery-electric fleets are scaling into routine procurement.

U.S. garbage-truck crashes fell from 4,250 to 3,700 over a two-year span, but deadly California crashes show that ...