San Francisco's aspirations for a $1,000 trash can spiraled out of control to more than double in cost. Here was the plan being described to him, as far as Supervisor Matt Haney could parse it: In ...

Erik Grabowsky is painfully aware that each time he chucks an overripe avocado, he’s not only lost a dollar; he’s also adding to the roughly 3,000 to 6,000 tons of food waste that residents in ...

Quest Diagnostics, one of America’s largest medical testing companies, has agreed to pay $5 million to settle charges that it improperly disposed of hazardous chemicals, medical waste and patient ...