City-assigned trash haulers are now picking up refuse from businesses in Central Queens, a milestone in New York’s yearslong quest to tame its chaotic and unsafe private waste industry. As of Thursday ...

As New York City slowly implements a long-delayed reform of the private waste hauling industry, pedestrians and workers keep getting injured or killed at an alarming rate, according to a new report.

In the U.S., more than a third of the food supply goes uneaten. The waste happens at multiple levels in the production and supply chain and is a big contributor to climate change. Food that ends up ...