HDB said the number of cases stabilises after the first year of operation as residents become familiar with the system. Read ...

When a new automated waste system was installed in his Housing Board estate in Teck Ghee about a year ago, Mr Tan Wee Boon thought the noise caused occasionally by large rubbish bins hauled around his ...

Remembered as one of the best-selling novelists of the 20th century, Nevil Shute Norway was also an aeronautical engineer who worked on Britain’s answer to the Zeppelin airship. Written by Nick Smith ...

Here are the violations reported in food safety inspection reports from Montgomery County conducted the week of Jan. 26 to ...

“Taking a plastic bottle and turning it into part of a pair of sneakers that after a year will be buried or burned is not perpetuating a cycle,” said Kevin Budris, deputy director of Just Zero, a ...

Roads littered with bursting bin bags. The unmistakable smell of rot in the air. A city all but abandoned, overrun with foxes, rats and gulls. It might sound like a scene from a Hollywood disaster ...

Do you cross the street to put your soda can in the recycling bin or avidly pluck plastics and paper from your neighbor’s trash cans? The current state of recycling in the United States may ...

A FINNISH man, 73, has been jailed for 22 years after killing his partner, 68, before cutting her up and dumping parts of her body in rubbish containers around Torrevieja. The sentence was passed ...

Chlorine bleach, rust remover, rubbing alcohol, antifreeze, biohazardous items, paint, and chemicals are all no-no's at the ...