MOJAVE, Calif. — When we think of infrastructure, roads, bridges and broadband come to mind, but for one town, the biggest infrastructure issue isn’t any of these—it’s trash. From neighborhood trash ...

Americans have been sending garbage to landfills for almost 100 years. Since the first one opened in Fresno, California in 1937, today the U.S. hauls about 268 million tons of trash to thousands of ...

The college town by the sea has a trash problem. With thousands of residents living in the less than 2 square miles of Isla Vista, the dense ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About an hour drive northwest of Savannah is the Candler County Landfill in Metter, Ga., where piles of dirt sit among the pines ...