Did you know your green energy is not so green? Here again are some facts that should shock you. Let’s get started. — Did you know that in the average wind turbine base there is 165 to 200 tons of ...

Saltwater pools are becoming more sought-after due to the health benefits of foregoing chlorine. Here are some of the top ...

Monsanto used and even owned Harrison's Bond Road Landfill. Many other sites accepted waste from Addyston's plastics chemical ...

Buried deep in a Welsh landfill, beneath layers of years-old garbage, there is a hard drive that holds the key to almost $800 ...

Landfill expenses would top $500 million a year without a new incinerator. But debt payments on a $1.8 billion incinerator get pricey, too.

The Utah Inland Port Authority has purchased an old Salt Lake City landfill and has promised to clean up the toxic site.

People living in multiple communities near the Texas-Louisiana border are concerned over plans to develop sites for oil and ...

After missing repeated deadlines, Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) has finally completed the bio-remediation of two garbage mountains (legacy waste) dumped at Dadumajra landfill, the civic ...

OKEECHOBEE COUNTY, Fla. — About 400 tractor trailers come and go every day from the Okeechobee Landfill. They’re hauling trash but some county leaders said they might as well be hauling gold.

Mr. Clapp is a journalist and the author of “Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash,” from which this essay is adapted. In the closing years of the Cold War, something strange started to ...

filling at least 620 acres of the total 770-acre parcel with municipal waste. The trash was buried in unlined shallow trenches and covered with dirt. When storms bring rain or snow to the site ...

Waste management has become a pressing issue worldwide, particularly in developing countries where urbanisation, economic growth, and industrialisation have significantly increased waste ...