‘Like the 1940s’: Durham County closes waste drop-off site for renovations with $3.3M grant

Thousands of people who use a waste drop-off facility in Durham County will have to go elsewhere for about a year during a ...
WTVD

'It's a shame': Durham sanitation workers walk off job as trash piles up

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- Angelica Bartico didn't understand why her trash bins were still full on trash pick-up day until ABC11 showed up at her front door. She headed to the back of her house to show ...
Indy Week

With Ambitious Curbside Food Scraps Collection Pilot, Durham Looks to Cut Landfill Waste

Leftover food comes and goes easily. Wilted salad left from a potluck, daily coffee grounds, the moldy butt of a loaf of bread, slick potato peels from Thanksgiving prep—if you’re like most people in ...
Recycling Today

Durham County, North Carolina, receives $3.3M grant to build new solid waste facility

The county plans to start construction early next year and open the convenience center in 2025. Artist rendering of the Redwood Convenience Site, which will start construction early next year. Durham ...
WUNC

Durham solid waste workers cease strike, planning to resume garbage collection Tuesday

Updated at 7:03 p.m., Sept. 11, 2023 to note that after the initial publication of this story, the workers have ended their strike Sanitation workers in Durham have ended their strike and are ...