A lone Amazon box teetered on top of a pyramid of trash bags stuffed into a residential dumpster in the West Loop. “There you got your people that don’t recycle,” said Orando “OG” George, a driver for ...

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Thirty years ago, in December 1995, with much fanfare and buildup, the City of Chicago introduced its first citywide recycling program. The Blue Bag program went ahead despite being savaged by critics ...

CHICAGO — Have any of your holiday lights gone out? If so, the group Reduce Waste Chicago wants you to bring the strands to an expanded list of recycling locations this holiday season. You can now ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Waste management companies may be seen negatively as “garbage collectors,” but Karen Coley is radically changing that view. She was ...

Waste Management Inc. has struck a deal to buy medical-waste disposal company Stericycle Inc. for $7.2 billion. Waste Management will acquire all outstanding shares of Stericycle for $62 per share in ...

After 15 hours of testimony, officials from Lakeshore Recycling Systems wrapped up their case for building a second waste transfer station in West Chicago. Then midway through the fourth hearing on ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago non-profit is collecting broken holiday lights so that they can be recycled. Reduced Waste Chicago will collect broken holiday lights at 22 locations until January 31.

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The Elgin City Council is weighing proposals for a new garbage removal contract, one with its longtime provider and the other with a company that would offer a flat rate for trash removal and do away ...