Waking up before the sun and arriving to work just before 5 a.m., Matt Carpenter gets ready to take the wheel of a Rumpke ...

Called a front loader, the machine lifts and dumps larger trash containers used at businesses and apartment buildings over the front of truck using automated forks. The new system is meant to be safer ...

Republic Services, one of the largest waste disposal companies and environmental services leaders, unveiled the first fully integrated electric recycling and waste collection truck Monday, according ...

Garbage trucks don't just haul away our rubbish — they break it up and compress it, making room for the huge volumes they collect every day. To do this, they sometimes use a blade that rotates quickly ...

The failure of a proposal to increase Little Rock solid waste rates would lead to more missed garbage pickups because of the age of the vehicles in the city's fleet, the Little Rock Board of Directors ...