MANILA -- The local government of Caloocan has insisted that garbage collection in the city remains regular, amid circulating reports of uncollected waste piling up in some areas during the recent ...

Rescue workers searched on Friday for dozens of people buried under a mountain of garbage that collapsed at a landfill in the central Philippines, killing at least one. Nearly 50 people were buried ...

MANILA, Philippines — An avalanche of garbage and debris buried or trapped workers in low-slung buildings at a landfill in the Philippines, killing two people, injuring a dozen, and leaving 36 others ...

A trash company contracted to serve Cicero and Clay has fallen behind in pickups by one to three days, frustrating residents and leaving behind trash and recyclables, according to town leaders and ...

An avalanche of garbage buried workers at a waste segregation facility in a central Philippine city, killing one person, injuring seven and leaving at least 27 others missing, police said Friday.

"It was traumatic. I feared that it was my end," an office worker at the landfill said after the incident on Thursday, Jan. 8 Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...