Garbage trucks look pretty indestructible from the outside. Big steel bodies, hydraulic rams, that satisfying crunch as they ...

The humble garbage run is getting a high-tech overhaul. From robot trash haulers that arrive on demand to electric trucks designed to silence the morning clatter of diesel engines, waste collection is ...

A sanitation worker in Milwaukee was hospitalized last Wednesday after an explosion in a garbage truck caused by improperly ...

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 ...

Three mornings a week, a fleet of brand-new, $500,000 trucks descends on Harlem to hoist a thousand massive trash bins into the air. Sanitation worker Anthony Martin stood outside one of the trucks on ...