The city recently hired a consultant to comb through city-collected garbage to find out what's in there, and develop ...

$4.7M raised from sale of trash bags A September report submitted to the City Council listed the approximate cost of producing yellow bags as $760,000. Department of Public Works & Parks ...

Taiwanese residents holding plastic bags of rubbish stand on a footpath as a yellow garbage truck playing classical music ...

Officials said the trash bag vending machine is another way of meeting people’s needs. Worcester does not provide residents with garbage bins. Instead, the city requires people put their trash in ...

Bonnie Russell said the large yellow bags she uses hold up well in her experience: "Yellow trash bags are sturdy and hold quite a bit. We use the large. Of course, I wish they cost less.

Saying trash pickup in the city is "middling at best," resident John Keough said he dislikes the yellow bags. "The yellow trash bags are horrible and too expensive," he said.

Currently, garbage truck employees empty recyclable bins and toss yellow bags into the trucks. But CWPM uses trucks that pick up the 95-gallon cans and empty them.

WORCESTER — The city's new 311 Customer Service Center in the Main South neighborhood features a new idea meant to address a hot-button issue in the city: access to yellow trash bags. The ...