Austin Resource Recovery

The city's bulk pickup program collects large items that can’t fit inside a regular trash bin a few times a year in select neighborhoods.

Every year, the City of Austin collects hundreds of thousands of tons of trash from residents through its curbside collection service. But what happens to all of this trash after the city collects it?

Plastic in the U.S. is largely going unrecycled, but the city says that's not so for the plastic we put in the blue bins.

Austin City Council passed an ambitious plan in 2011 to divert most of the city's waste from landfills by 2040. Despite recycling and composting strategies, we're nowhere near where we should be.

An estimated one-third of the city’s tree canopy was damaged to varying extents during last month's ice storm.

West Austin bore the brunt of downed tree limbs.

The City of Austin’s new fiscal year starts Oct. 1, and with it comes new city fees. That can mean anything from what it costs to swim at Barton Springs…

All Austin businesses with a permit to sell food are now required to divert organic waste from landfills, but some restaurant owners say they didn’t get…

Austin says it is still committed to reducing plastic waste despite a Texas Supreme Court ruling last month that forced it to end its ban on single-use…

Yesterday, we heard about a new goal set by the federal government: a 50 percent reduction in food waste by 2030.One way to waste less food is to compost…