There is a small symbol on every car battery, a tiny trash can with a line through it. It is not decorative. It is not a suggestion. It is a universal warning that has apparently ... Read more ...

Discarded batteries put one garbage truck out of commission, and have caused aggressive fires in others.

Officials said improperly thrown-away batteries caused the fire — part of a rising trend of battery-related fires in garbage ...

Hillsborough County waste officials are expanding public education programs to prevent dangerous garbage truck fires caused ...

Imagine waking up to a pile of trash sitting in your street. That’s what happened in one Chesapeake neighborhood last week when a garbage truck’s load caught fire. Chesapeake Public Works says people ...

Surveillance footage released this week shows a lithium-ion battery suddenly sparking and erupting into flames inside the ...

Rio Bravo officials say trash collection may be slower than usual after one of the city’s garbage trucks suffered significant damage from improperly discarded car batteries.

PITTSBURGH — A large pile of garbage from a Waste Management truck was burning on the side of the inbound lanes of the Parkway East near the Squirrel Hill Tunnel, causing traffic issues. It appears ...

Today’s incident serves as a reminder that certain items should never be placed in household garbage cans,” Bradenton ...