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The state's Department of Environmental Services is accepting public comment on the permit modification request until 4 p.m. on March 27.

Advocates and residents had raised concerns that the proposed regulations – which are being updated, as required, after 10 years – had been overly molded by industry, and that they were not adequately protective.

The House passed several bills that sought to address trash being imported and pump the brakes on new landfill development. But the Senate shot down the proposals.

The grants are intended to help the state purchase recycling infrastructure and fund outreach and educational programs to improve recycling and reduce waste.

Many towns across New Hampshire have adopted single-stream recycling... toss everything together, and it will be sorted out down the line. But a recent…

Goodwill Industries of Northern New England says it took in a record number of donations in 2017 and is on track to do the same this year.The non-profit…

Today's college students are reliable consumers, with annual budgets for furniture, clothes and gadgets. Much of which ends up in a dumpster. On today’s…

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Many of us have good intentions when it comes to reducing household waste – but too often those canvas totes get left in the closet, food scraps avoid the…

You may have heard that Americans throw away more than any other nation, but any idea of just how much? Each of us is on track to toss 102 tons of garbage…