First a foot of snow, then the plowed-in cars, and now frustrated New Yorkers are furious over mountains of trash piling up on city streets, as collection has been reduced by January’s massive winter storm.
At least two people were killed on Thursday, 12 were injured, and 35 are still missing after a landfill in the central Philippines collapsed and buried a village beneath an avalanche of garbage.
The Labour Party government has called upon the military to help clear garbage from the streets of Birmingham as a continuing union strike has left tens of thousands of tonnes of trash lining the streets of Britain’s second-largest city.
As a reminder that President Joe Biden criticized his predecessor, former President Donald Trump’s supporters, referring to them as “garbage,” Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) showed up at his polling precinct in Enterprise, AL, to vote by driving a garbage truck.
It is “disgusting” that President Joe Biden called supporters of former President Donald Trump “garbage” at a campaign event for Vice President Kamala Harris, but that is likely just the tip of the iceberg, according to Sen. JD Vance, who said on Breitbart News Saturday, “Imagine what they’re saying about you in private.”
After the Associated Press reported that the White House altered the record of President Joe Biden smearing Trump supporters as “garbage,” critics ripped the media for trying to spin the edit as being taken out of context.
Boards are going up in Washington, DC, less than a week away from the election, at it seems some businesses are doing so in anticipation of riots on election night.
House Republicans say the Biden-Harris White House might have broken the law when they altered President Joe Biden’s remarks in the official transcript to imply he did not call Trump supporters “garbage.”
The timing of President Joe Biden’s “garbage” smear muzzled Vice President Kamala Harris’s closing pivot, Democrats acknowledged Thursday.
Vulnerable Democrat Senate candidates are scrambling away from President Joe Biden as his “garbage” smear on Trump supporters endangers candidates’ viability, while others refuse to say whether or not they actually think former President Donald Trump’s supporters are “garbage.”
Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), who is running in a tightly contested U.S. Senate race in Michigan, criticized President Joe Biden for calling Trump supporters “garbage.”
A campaign spokesman for Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), one of the most vulnerable Senators seeking reelection this cycle, told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement that Brown disagrees that Trump supporters are “garbage,” as President Joe Biden declared Tuesday. In
Even the garbage is expensive in the Biden-Harris economy.
A single waste management facility in Pennsylvania has collected $10 million in lost coins since it began picking them out of the trash in 2017, a company executive said.
The Old Bridge township’s department of works deployed two workers to clear out the cooked pasta dumped along the New Jersey creek, as reported by local outlets.
A viral video has shown French diners sipping wine with a burning pile of garbage set ablaze by rioters in the background.
Paris has been warned of a potential rat invasion amid the garbage collector strike which has seen tonnes of trash pile up on the streets.
A pair of Waste Management workers in Port Charlotte, Florida, are getting a lot of attention for their heroic actions.
Democrat-run New York City is now so rat-infested that citizens and businesses will no longer be allowed to take the trash out to the street until after 8:00 p.m.
A man was crushed to death by a trash compactor after climbing into the garbage chute in a Brooklyn apartment building.
Illegal Chinese fishing boats are responsible for the majority of man-made ocean waste found near or in the Galapagos Islands Marine Preserve, which is located off Ecuador’s Pacific coast, the Latin American news site Infobae reported on Monday.
A dog found living in a garbage pile in Georgia was rescued by a kind-hearted resident on Friday.
An advisor to President Emmanuel Macron has announced that he will be moving out of Paris due to the city becoming an open “trash can”.
Trash is piling up in areas around New York City as approximately 17 percent of sanitation workers refused to be vaccinated after mandates took effect on Monday.
The rock band Garbage has apologized to its Mexican fans for celebrating Cinco de Mayo after numerous people on Twitter pointed out that May 5 isn’t a major holiday in Mexico.
Paris’ left-wing Mayor has blamed a “far-right” smear campaign for a protest against garbage and dirt in the streets of the French capital.
Paris’s city government has criticised a “smear campaign” after a hashtag spread among French social media users showed pictures of the capital with garbage piled up on the streets.
The number of young, single Tokyo residents requesting professional cleaning services for their apartments has skyrocketed over the past year due to a pandemic phenomenon known as “garbage houses,” in which people allow trash to accumulate inside their homes for months.
A 34-year-old New York City woman was discovered dead in a Staten Island apartment’s garbage chute, police said.
A four-year-old girl got to experience her own trash bash for her birthday thanks to the kindness of a few sanitation workers.
A car wash employee in Greenville, North Carolina, discovered a $1,200 stimulus check in the trash and made sure it was returned to its intended recipient.
Malaysian Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin announced Tuesday the country would return 400 tons of garbage, most of it contaminated plastic, to its home countries, following adamant demands (and a threat of war) from Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte for Canada to take back its trash in Manila.
This comes just weeks after an NBC 4 report about an “infestation in Los Angeles City Hall of rats and fleas linked to typhus disease.”
The government of Canada offered the Philippines a deal on Thursday to accept over 100 containers full of household trash after illegally sending them to the Asian country in 2013. President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to go to war with Canada last week if they did not accept the garbage.
A spokesperson for Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday played down an apparent declaration of war against Canada, arguing that it was merely a “figure of speech.”
Starving Venezuelans fleeing across the border to Brazil have become a common sight around the dumpsters of the country’s biggest border cities, sending their children to find edible garbage to survive. The images, mirroring the reality in their home country, have triggered a backlash among the local population, Brazilian outlet Globo reported on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump again hit the ongoing Russia investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, calling it a “pile of garbage.”
KIBBUTZ ZEELIM, Israel — Hawks, vultures and storks circle overhead as Christopher Sveen points at the heap of refuse rotting in the desert heat. “This is the mine of the future,” he beams.
CARACAS, Venezuela – Driving through the streets of Caracas, it is impossible not to notice the ubiquitous government propaganda on the sides of buildings and scores of armed police. Even harder to avoid, however, is the garbage. On almost every street
Officials in one Texas city went silent over allegations of secrecy and cronyism in a questionable closed-door garbage collection deal. The deal overcharged local businesses for years and the city fizzled on its promises to look into the matter for its taxpayers.
