“Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, a new type on the streets of his native nineteenth-century Paris.

Recycling is being called into question as landfills keep growing. When Chip Britting celebrated the first Earth Day in April 1970, the then-teenager saw recycling as a promising industry and went on ...

Republic Services' recycling facility sits a few hundred feet from homes and businesses in Hazelwood. A recycling center in Pittsburgh’s Hazelwood neighborhood is looking to expand into garbage ...