That milk carton you just washed, the yogurt container you’re ready to toss, or the empty plastic water bottle. Do these items get trashed or recycled? Recyclepedia ...

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — National Recycling Day was observed on Saturday as the push to get people to recycle correctly grows more urgent by the day. Recycling can be confusing, and many are doing it ...

Miami-Dade has been slow to catch up with other states and other Florida communities in embracing large-scale composting. While landfills have continued to fill up, there hasn’t been a clear path in ...

After Miami-Dade County’s elected leaders failed to agree on where to build a new garbage incinerator, will the private sector do any better? In a surprise vote Tuesday, county commissioners set a ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Miami-Dade County produces more trash than nearly anywhere else in the nation. Each year, residents and businesses generate about 5 million tons of garbage — double the ...

Miami-Dade recently awarded three companies $100,000 each to pilot composting and waste-diversion technologies — the first meaningful step toward a true zero-waste system. These pilots will help ...

Will a modern incinerator, as imagined here in this rendering of a possible trash-burning facility, ever get built in Miami-Dade? County commissioners on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, asked two potential ...