Approximately 80 percent of the materials used to build a garbage truck could be replaced with recycled materials and ...

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 truck drove like a hulking ghost in the near-darkness. Gone was the roar of an internal combustion engine, the quintessential booming that signals to every neighborhood when it’s garbage day. With ...

Garbage trucks are looking and sounding very different these days for some neighborhoods in Central Oregon. The familiar roar of an oncoming truck and its accompanying belch of diesel smoke is being ...