garbage

For the past two years, I've been chasing down a crazy goal: to reduce my family's trash enough that I could call the company which collects our garbage and tell it that, instead of picking up our one 32-gallon can every week, we'd need the service only once a month. Even though we've always been...

The recession is having at least one positive impact in California -- less garbage, according to an Associated Press story. The story points out that there is less waste because people are buying fewer items, eat out less, and construction waste has dropped with the housing market. While all that...