Waste Management, the nation’s biggest recycler, is spending $1.4 billion to become more efficient. How it could pay off.

“Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, a new type on the streets of his native nineteenth-century Paris.

A new memoir by a Montreal garbageman shows the actual work of cleaning up the world’s junk.

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The composter is starting its second municipal waste hauling contract that was previously serviced by Casella. President ...