You searched for garbage man - Good News Network
Home Search

garbage man - search results

If you're not happy with the results, please do another search

Garbage Man Saves Kitten from Being Crushed, Now Adopted and Healthy in Time for Christmas

Seconds away from being crushed in a garbage truck, a snow-white kitten has found a new home in time for Christmas after being saved...

Mystery ‘Garbage Man’ in Wisconsin Neighborhood is Revealed to Be a 75-Year-old Man

For weeks, in the frigid Wisconsin winter, neighbors in Appleton were puzzling over a sudden mystery. On garbage days, they would trudge with their trash...

Little Girl Has Best Birthday Ever Thanks To Kind Garbage Man

Brooklyn and her mom spend every Thursday waiting at the end of their driveway so they can wave to their 'favorite awesome smiley garbage...

Garbage Man Returns Gift Card, Family Repays His Kindness

A sanitation worker in Colorado returned a Christmas present to a family who accidentally threw it out. And they rewarded his honesty in a...

Hero Garbageman Rescues Man, Woman, and Dog from House Fire

GNN often reports on lifesaving rescues by firemen, risking life and lung to pull people from burning buildings, but these two are not firemen,...

Garbageman Develops Sweetest Friendship With 88-Year-old Woman After She Fell in Her Driveway

Ever since Billy Shelby saw Opal Zucca trip and fall back in January, he has insisted on helping her with the trash cans every week.

Another Hero–When Garbageman Refuses to Flee Wildfires So He Can Check On Seniors Along His Route (Podcast)

Podcast about a garbageman who ignored warnings to evacuate a fire, breaking protocol to check on elderly folks on his route—and a 93-year-old was so glad he did.

Hero Garbageman Refuses to Flee Wildfires So He Can Check On Seniors Along His Route

LISTEN to this story in our podcast, told by The Good News Guru (the GNN Founder) on Friday’s radio broadcast with Ellen K on KOST-103.5 — Or, READ the story below… (Subscribe...

Trash Man Creates Free Library Out of 20,000 Books Found in Garbage

This garbage man hated to see all the books in the trash bins of wealthier neighborhoods—so he started salvaging them to create a new library...

Man Teaches People to Build Fuel Sources – Powered by Garbage

Homemade biodigesters turn human and food waste into biogas, which can be used to heat water, cook food, or produce electricity. Thomas H. Culhane enthusiastically...
Chad Pregracke with tire

Rivers’ Garbageman Named CNN Hero of the Year!

The Good News Network is thrilled that a young man we've reported on for years, who has removed more than seven million pounds of...

Garbage Strike Turns Many to Composting

"With Vancouver's garbage strike entering its 30th day today, many households are turning to composting as a way to reduce the family footprint." (Vancouver...

Man Finds Wife’s Ring at N.J. Garbage Dump

Sanitation workers helped a man find his wife's wedding ring inside a truckload of garbage. Such digging in the heat of summer was...

Growing Up With Asthma, Woman Now Accelerates Our Transition to EVs to Reduce Air Pollution in Cities

During the crucial first two years of life, the brain undergoes significant development, with a staggering one million neural connections formed every second, yet...

Ocean CleanUp Launches Huge System in Pacific Garbage Patch to Clean a Football Field Every 5 Seconds

Last week, The Ocean Cleanup organization that has been tackling the Great Pacific Garbage Patch deployed their System 03 for the first time—nearly three...

2,000-year-old Roman House Uncovered in Malta Reveals Ancient History of Wealthy Society

A research team from the University of South Florida has discovered a 2,000 year-old house that once belonged to a wealthy family—still in exceptional...

Pacific Garbage Patch Is Teeming With Life–An Ecosystem Older Than Plastic But No One Saw it

In the northern Pacific Ocean, a powerful ocean 'gyre' pulls together several ocean currents into a single region—the site of the infamous Great Pacific...

Man Finds Tiny Dolls Cozied-up in the Back of His Mailbox – The Scene Keeps Changing but Mystery Remains Unsolved

When a Michigan man went for a routine walk to his mailbox to collect unwanted supermarket papers and publicity, he discovered to his surprise...

Ocean Cleanup Hits Milestone of 220 Tons Removed From Pacific Garbage Patch (Watch)

The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch organization currently tackling the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), has just reached a milestone of 220 tons of plastic...

Triplets Reunite With Garbage Truck Driver–Their Childhood Hero—4 Years After Adorable Story Went Viral

Some Florida kids got to see their favorite garbage man again after a four year absence when city officials saw an old video of...