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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A landfill is a place of perpetual motion, where mountains of garbage can rise in days and crews race to contain the influx of ever more trash. Amid the commotion, an invisible gas often escapes ...

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 ...

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 ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - The city of Waco landfill was purchased from the city of Woodway back in 1986, and after 38 years, is almost full. The city’s director of solid waste told KWTX they anticipate the ...

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 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 ...

Americans are sending more than twice as much trash to landfills as the federal government has estimated, according to a new study. It turns out that on average America tosses five pounds of trash per ...