In 2020, the City of Cambridge hit its goal for a 30 percent reduction in trash under the Zero Waste Master Plan. Now, it’s aiming even higher. City officials updated the City Council’s Health and ...

The City of Cambridge reduced its trash by 30 percent — or 7.2 pounds per week per household — from 2008 to 2019, according to a statement released by the Department of Public Works Friday. In 2009, ...

After two years of public hearings and planning, the play by the administration of Gov. Charlie Baker for how to handle the state’s solid waste over the next decade landed with a thud among ...

Last year was a good one for trash. Or, rather, for the prospects of reducing it. For the last several years, lawmakers have passed new laws aimed at curbing plastic, from the 2014 ban on single-use ...

During the week of Feb. 6, every household on Monday’s trash collection route in Seymour received a box with a nine-month supply of orange and green bags. This trash reduction pilot, funded by the ...

In 2009, the city of Cambridge adopted a goal to reduce trash by 30% by 2020 and 80% by 2050, using 2008 as a baseline. Subsequently, the Department of Public Works launched new programs and ...

TORONTO , Oct. 19 /CNW/ - The original "green" Muppet, Oscar the Grouch, will resurface today just in time for Waste Reduction Week 2009. After weeks of secretly roaming the Great White North to learn ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BILOXI, Miss. – The U.S. Environmental ...