ROCHESTER, N.Y. — When you put something in your recycling bin, how confident are you that it won’t wind up in a landfill? News10NBC went to a local garbage collector to learn exactly what happens ...

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 ...

In this file photo, Charles Barnes, operator of one of the city's automated pickup trash trucks, uses a mechanical arm to lift city trash bins off the street in the Prairie Park neighborhood. Low ...

(NewsNation)— Reduce, reuse, recycle — the three Rs kids know all too well from educational campaigns at school. Now, a relatively new educational campaign has emerged in East Lansing, Michigan.