We've all done it: you toss a piece of trash at a nearby waste basket only to have it ricochet off the edge, forcing you to make that shameful walk to go pick it up and drop it in carefully. You only ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Who knew something as mundane as a trash can could receive such an accolade? The New York City Department of Sanitation’s new trash receptacle has been named to Time’s “Best ...

It’s the city’s dirty little secret. Trash baskets are mysteriously vanishing from Big Apple street corners, and one Sanitation official says it’s a citywide problem caused by scrap-metal thieves. The ...

In the public conversation surrounding quality of life in New York City, litter baskets -- the mostly green, metal-wire trash cans standing guard on street corners throughout the five boroughs -- have ...

“This basket was given to me by a dear friend when her mother passed away,” Robin Beltramini wrote in an email to the column recently, attaching a photograph of a Native American basket. It “had been ...

EXETER — The towns of Exeter and Newmarket may be forced to temporarily dump Market Basket as a place to sell municipal trash bags after the embattled supermarket failed to pay its bills on time for ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — A proposal to explore reducing weekly trash pickup in Ann Arbor to every other week may be headed for the waste basket, or perhaps a recycling bin. The idea floated at a recent ...