Austin Resource Recovery

If you’re looking forward to sorting through your food scraps next week, you might have to wait a little longer. While the requirement technically goes into effect Tuesday, many apartment buildings will be slow to adopt the change, if at all.

The typical resident will pay $172 more this year. The increases are coming on the heels of inflation hikes on most goods, including groceries and gas.

More than half of Austin residents live in multifamily complexes, but most don’t have composting services, according to 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…