About 5,000 tons of trash from the Chicago area is dumped every day at a landfill in Livingston County, but hardly any of it goes to waste. How yesterday’s trash becomes tomorrow’s energy.

Through the end of the month, an exhibition at Williamsburg’s City Reliquary community museum highlights the city’s long and dynamic relationship with trash.

Sterling Heights residents are being warned about items they should not throw away after a garbage man was sprayed Wednesday with chemicals.

Justin David Pratt, 27, who worked for Modern Waste, was killed in the crash.