TRASH

The City of San Antonio's Solid Waste Management Department said it is cleaning up streets and is also pushing for surveillance and education, as well.

It’s a beloved Carnival season tradition in New Orleans — masked riders on lavish floats fling strings of beads or other trinkets to parade watchers.

River Aid San Antonio asks volunteers to show up at the Espada Dam between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturday. Another clean-up event will follow the next weekend.

More than 100 people have successfully completed the program and received their Commercial Driver's License. Of those graduates, 76 have been hired as full-time employees by the City's Solid Waste Management Department.

The city is already investing more money into tackling the clean-up efforts, but now it’s time to educate the public to stop illegal dumping.

The “Don’t Let Litter Trash Your River” initiative intends to educate the communities throughout the basin and encourage the public to take part in helping keep area creeks and rivers clean by not littering and picking up trash when they see it on the ground.

City staff say the city's Solid Waste Fund is "structurally unbalanced" and will likely warrant a rate increase in the 2024 fiscal year. It's not clear yet how much that could be.

San Antonio continues to feel the impact of the pandemic, which now includes the rising amount of trash taken to our landfills that could be disposed of differently.

Three days after KSAT reported on a short-staffed trash hauler’s weeks-long backlog on pickups, the owners told customers they are filing for bankruptcy and that their already-delayed pickups would not ever be happening.

A flood of Warrior Disposal customers from neighborhoods on the far west side of Bexar County called or emailed KSAT with complaints about the company. Its owner blamed delays in service on staffing shortages, saying out of seven trucks, he only had one in the field on Friday.

Canyon Lake officials are taking steps to prevent overcrowding and pollution at the park. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said large crowds in recent weeks have caused concern for public safety and the environment.

A KSAT Explains viewer wanted to know why San Antonio has so much trash dumped along roads. It turns out it’s a tricky question to answer.

Go into any store right now to buy pretty much anything, and you’ll find literal tons of plastic packaging. Goods are shrink-wrapped, sealed and stored, all in plastic.

While we set aside one day a year to celebrate Earth Day and focus on ways each of us can protect our planet, there are things we can do every day that are simple and meaningful.

For many of us, plastic bags are a way to get our groceries, and anything else we buy, home from the store.

Mark your calendars, because you’re invited: To the city’s free landfill day, that is, set for 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. this Saturday.