MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Authorities are investigating after they say a garbage truck caught fire in southwest Miami-Dade Tuesday morning. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials said firefighters ...

SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - A garbage truck in Southwest Miami-Dade was engulfed in flames. The fire broke out Tuesday morning in the area of Southwest 157th Court and 139th Street.

A trash truck crashed into power poles on Thursday, downing power lines in northeast Miami-Dade. Miami Police said the crash happened on Northeast 82nd Street and 2nd Avenue.

As a fire at the Doral facility continued to burn Monday morning, Miami-Dade was diverting trash-hauling trucks to landfills and dumping stations in a system that handles nearly 5,000 tons of ...

After a fire shutdown the county’s incinerator plant in Doral, Miami-Dade has been running short on landfill capacity needed to approve new housing projects. Miami-Dade’s trash chief resigns ...

Miami-Dade County commissioners are set to make what could be their most contentious decision in years: where to build a new garbage incinerator. A vote on the location is scheduled at Tuesday’s ...

The resignation of Miami-Dade County’s trash chief last week came just months after a fire at the Covanta trash incinerator plant in Doral shut it down indefinitely. Without it, the county’s ...

Moving the Miami-Dade trash ... Waste Management transported the trash from Miami-Dade County to its Okeechobee County landfill by truck. By September 2023, however, the trash was making ...

As part of the meeting, a presentation on current waste challenges was followed by possible short and long-term solutions. Just in Miami-Dade County, trash services are provided to 350,000 households.

While trains are one option to dispose of the trash that Miami-Dade once burned in ... For the more than 350,000 households who rely on county sanitation trucks for twice-weekly trash pickups, ...

While Miami-Dade is shipping its garbage by truck and train to landfills across Florida, the county considers transportation too expensive to be sustainable.