Recycling

The pause and training are a direct result of Ronald Silver II’s death, a solid waste worker who died on Friday while reportedly showing signs of heat stress.

“You don't have to guess which week to put it out anymore.”

The Department of Public Works is almost up to speed on its challenges with delayed trucks, staffing vacancies, and route changes.

“The earliest date we can resume weekly recycling for the entire city, would be at the end of February,” said Richard Luna, the interim director of the Department of Public Works.

In order to have weekly recycling by the first quarter of 2024, officials from the Department of Public Works say they will need 20 new crews and 30 new garbage trucks.

Lisa Ramsden, Senior Plastics Campaigner at Greenpeace USA and Jennifer Congdon, Deputy Director of Beyond Plastics, discuss how we're choking on the ubiquitous material, and how we can move to a plastic-free world.

Once it goes in the bin, where does it go from there?

Baltimore may be getting its first major snowfall of the season Wednesday and Mayor Brandon Scott is urging residents to be prepared.“I want to assure the…

Baltimore’s Department of Public Works will suspend pickup recycling services through Nov. 1, acting director Matthew Barbark announced at a Thursday…

Happy 2019! Have you made your New Year’s resolutions? Is one of them to do a better job recycling? Then you’re tuned to the right spot--We’re about a…