Michigan residents sent 8.5 percent more trash to the state’s landfills during 2019. That volume helped fuel a 6.2-percent increase in total waste moved into landfills, even as the overall volume of ...

Living near a landfill is no picnic. There's the smell, and a good chance of leaching chemicals. Shea Gunther is a writer, entrepreneur, and podcaster living in Portland, Maine. He covers topics such ...

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The United States has over 3,000 active landfills and 10,000 closed landfills. Landfills are necessary for the proper disposal of solid waste. They reduce the amount of waste that makes it into the ...

Did you know methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide? Uncaptured methane is 84 times more harmful than carbon dioxide, making it a significant driver of climate change. Landfills ...

CLIMATEWIRE | EPA has quietly teed up what could become the first important climate rule of a potential Kamala Harris administration: a crackdown on landfill gas. The agency announced last week that ...

The waste management firm Republic Services Inc., Phoenix, and Lab USA, which specializes in reducing emissions to air, water and soil, have unveiled an ash metal recovery facility that will operate ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Underground fires and methane leaks at California landfills have prompted thousands of complaints from nearby ...

The smoldering, stinking mess at the Chiquita Canyon Landfill in Castaic is a glaring example of the environmental and public health hazards created by burying our trash — and how state and local ...

One of Alabama’s poorest Black communities has become, once again, a major dumping ground for trash from up and down the eastern seaboard. The small city of Uniontown in Alabama’s Black Belt is awash ...

Swansea's former landfill has been inactive since 1983, but some waste remains that could pollute surrounding wetlands. The owners of the land have hired Charter, a contracting company, to remediate ...