Taking the time to clean out your kitchen trash can liner with soap and disinfectant regularly will ensure that there are no ...

The federal government shutdown will pass the one-month marker on Saturday, Nov. 1. And because of the shutdown, those who ...

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To organize the mail that lands by the door, set strict limits and make disposal easy. "Your mail caddy should only hold as ...

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Recycling takes more than just throwing your used cans into the recycling bin. If you're not prepping your aluminum before ...

SAN DIEGO — San Diego’s residential trash system has hit a delay. The city’s long-anticipated rollout of new garbage bins was set to begin this week, but delivery of the new bins has been pushed back.

Many residents say that illegal dumping has inundated Oakland, Calif., a city with more garbage than almost anywhere else. Many residents say that illegal dumping has inundated Oakland, Calif., a city ...

Carving a jack o'lantern leaves you with a mess of pumpkin seeds and innards. Here are five great ways to use pumpkin innards ...

OAKLAND, Calif. — It’s hard to stay calm when it’s your job to rid Oakland of trash. Josh Rowan, the city’s acting public works director, becomes irate when he drives through the canyons of cardboard ...

Plastic plus food is a bad combination in general, given how chemicals can leach out of plastic over time or with heat.

Kristina Douglass was doing the dishes in her slippers when she received the call from the MacArthur Foundation, giving her the news that she had received a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. "I told ...