Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Miami-Dade County’s recycling program faces a messy challenge: sticker shock. After prices locked in from a 2008 processing ...

The Miami-Dade Department of Solid Waste Management launched the first phase of this initiative in the spring, and the full fleet is scheduled for deployment by early next year. The Miami-Dade ...

Homeowners in South Florida are accustomed to having recycling pickup every two weeks. In one Miami Gardens neighborhood, residents say it’s been more than two months since their recycling bins have ...

View of recycled materials traveling along a conveyor to be sorted at the Waste Management Recycling Plant in Pembroke Pines, Florida, on Friday, April 8, 2022. Pedro Portal pportal@miamiherald.com ...

MIAMI - America generates about 97 billion pounds of plastic waste every year – the most on the planet. In the U.S., one of the biggest users of single-use plastic cups is Starbucks – 75% of its ...

MIAMI — The city of Miami has made a consequential decision to withdraw an ordinance that would have allowed the city to stop offering recycling services for residents and businesses. The fact that ...

Miami-Dade County’s recycling rate has taken a nosedive in the past decade, plummeting from 46 percent in 2012 to 19 percent, according to the most recent data from the Florida Department of ...

Miami — A donation box at the Brickell Run Club in Miami, Florida, asks runners to recycle used sneakers that would otherwise wind up in the trash. "Typically, on a weekly basis, we'll probably get, I ...

View of recycled materials traveling along a conveyor to be sorted at the Waste Management Recycling Plant in Pembroke Pines. A new contract means millions of dollars more for Miami-Dade County’s ...