This was the germ of my idea, that the city had a garbage footprint, that we were eight million people in a very small place and had no place nearby to put our garbage. "So that was the germ of the ...

Garbage Land On the Secret Trail of Trash By Elizabeth Royte Nothing lasts forever, but garbage comes pretty close. After being whisked away by the sanitation department, it may change location, or, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Recently, a new class of muckrakers has investigated the hidden infrastructures that ...

HOUMA -- Many Terrebonne Parish residents can expect to pay more in 2005 for garbage and sewer services. The higher fees approved by the Terrebonne Parish Council in November went into effect over the ...