trash

On this edition of the Stateside Podcast, we introduce you Trash the Clown. She's a Michigan clown whose mission is to keep Port Huron clean and improve the world with one small action at a time.

Volunteers with the Michigan Clean Water Corps program, supported by grant funding from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), removed over 31,000 pounds of garbage from 222 miles of rivers and streams in 2023.

One of the Detroit 3 looks to cut thousands of jobs, grieving the mother you never met, Michigan's affordable landfills nearing capacity and new details about the alleged MSU gunman.

Michigan residents are sending more trash to the state’s landfills than they have since before the Great Recession.Last year Michigan homes and businesses…

You see it all the time in city streams and rivers: all kinds of trash, much of it plastic, bobbing along the edge of the water. You know it’s not right.…

Governor Rick Snyder wants to increase the cost of dumping waste in the state’s landfills. This is part of the governor’s proposal to improve Michigan’s…

A public authority that handles trash and recycling for 12 metro Detroit cities is suing the city of Madison Heights. The dispute centers around whether…

Two groups established by Gov. Rick Snyder have produced a list of suggestions for stepping up solid waste recycling in Michigan.The proposals are in…

LANSING, Mich. - Efforts to rid Michigan communities of plastic shopping bags would be banned under a bill set to advance in the Republican-led…

Recycling programs in Michigan have run into some problems.Some, like the University of Michigan's program, cut back on what they take. And businesses are…