Nearly a billion pounds of plastic film mulch is used in American agriculture each year, and most of it is dumped into landfills. New research from Washington State University shows that recycling ...

Every day, some 50,000 gallons of potentially toxic wastewater collect inside the Shoosmith Landfill, a deteriorating dump in Chesterfield County whose owner has gone bankrupt and whose cleanup could ...

Community members and local officials were given another glimpse at Meadowview, a solid waste transfer and recycling facility proposed in Grayslake to replace the Countryside Landfill, during a public ...

THAN PRIOR GENERATIONS. WELL, TONIGHT WE’RE GETTING ANSWERS ABOUT POTENTIAL CUTS TO STATEWIDE PROGRAMS THAT KEEP MISSOURI CLEAN. NOW, THE MONEY WOULD GO TO HELP CLEAN UP ABANDONED LANDFILLS.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. On March 8, seven sanitation workers were killed at Southeast Asia’s largest landfill, the Bantargebang dump site east of Jakarta, Indonesia’s ...

WE TOLD YOU ABOUT THE CONTROVERSIAL PLAN TO TAKE THOUSANDS OF TONS OF TRASH FROM MIAMI AND DUMP IT IN SMALL TOWN SUMTER COUNTY. BUT THE GARBAGE ISN’T THE ONLY CONCERN. PEOPLE LIVING NEAR THE LANDFILL ...

Enzymatic deinking represents a sustainable advance in paper recycling, employing biocatalysts to dislodge and disperse printing inks from recovered fibres. Unlike conventional chemical–mechanical ...

Your garbage bin has seen it all: food scraps, expired ingredients, days-old leftovers, as well as broken and worn-out objects. When something has already served its purpose and is no longer needed, ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) —You may not always see it, but you’d notice if the Sioux Falls landfill was gone. “Without us, what would happen? It would pile up in your yard. It pile up in your streets, ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — When people think about environmental issues and reducing waste, recycling cardboard shipping boxes or plastics often comes to mind. But this Earth Day, advocates are ...

MORRISTOWN, Tenn. — The city of Morristown could be getting a new landfill, disposing of construction materials, and saving space at other sites. Waste solutions company SEI Waste is proposing a Class ...