A Feb. 20 bid and June 30 contract deadline force Philly to weigh whether to keep sending trash to Chester’s giant ...

In January, Philadelphia announced it would join a national initiative to accept plastic cups made of polypropylene and paper to-go cups in the curbside collection program. These to-go cups now join ...

Philadelphia’s waste disposal practices, particularly the use of incinerators in Chester, are under scrutiny as contracts ...

Commercial pickup program delivers secure, compliant e-waste recycling across Philadelphia and surrounding business ...

Philadelphia City Council is tackling air pollution with new bill, the "Stop Trashing Our Air Act," which seeks to ban the incineration of new trash in Philly. I toured the White House to see Melania ...

Isaiah T. Martin, Empowered CDC’s president and CEO, stands next to a piece of artwork at the nonprofit's first community waste disposal site near Bartram's Garden. (Sophia Schmidt/WHYY) This story is ...

Philadelphia City Council is weighing a bill that would ban the city from sending waste to incinerators like the one in Chester — the largest trash-to-energy incinerator in the country. It’s the Stop ...