Food and all those lights, trees, gifts and their wrapping paper make the holidays a lot more festive, but they also considerably increase the amount of trash we produce. ...more

December 25, 2009

The holidays mean lots of trash. Here are some tips to help reduce your carbon footprint this year. ...more

December 24, 2009

Hillsborough County has kicked off its second annual Cell Phones for Soldiers drive. ...more

December 9, 2009

The county has expanded its waste-to-energy plant on Falkenburg Road by 50 percent. ...more

November 11, 2009

In 2006 Hillsborough County commissioners spent $170,000 to terminate a golf range's lease on the Linebaugh Avenue County Northwest Landfill to hasten development of another solid waste transfer station. Today, the golf range remains shuttered, the site is an eyesore, no new transfer station is built and there is no sign of the construction that was to be completed this year. ...more

October 29, 2009

There will be no make-up day for city residents whose trash, yard waste and recycling collection will be delayed by the Labor Day holiday on Monday. ...more

September 5, 2009

The city will no longer offer "holiday makeup" days for trash and recycling. ...more

June 17, 2009

A record number of people turned up Saturday to dispose of their old paint, household chemicals and electronics at a parking lot staffed by the city's Solid Waste Department. ...more

April 26, 2009

Perhaps you held off buying that new refrigerator, or didn't buy a new home altogether. Either way, that meant a bit less garbage on the way to the landfill. ...more

March 23, 2009

Perhaps you held off buying that new refrigerator, or didn't buy a new home altogether. Either way, that meant a bit less garbage on the way to the landfill. Multiply that frugality across several million people in the Tampa Bay area, and the down economy is having a direct impact on the flow of garbage to government dumps. ...more

March 19, 2009