July 14, 2015 San Diego — San Diego moved to the forefront of nationwide efforts to reduce waste in landfills on Monday when the City Council unanimously adopted a complex blueprint for shrinking the amount of trash produced locally to zero ...

POSTED: 04/01/14, 6:37 AM PDT LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council today approved a transformation in the way trash is picked up from businesses, apartments and condominiums, backing a franchise system aimed at bolstering recycling and slashing the number ...

After an intense three-year lobbying effort pitting business against labor, the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday launched an effort to give trash haulers exclusive rights to specific neighborhoods. The new system calls for creating areas in which a single ...