Question: What practices occur at our local waste facilities to prevent contamination of water sources (drinking and otherwise)? Answer: Waste facilities are broken down into classes with specific ...

Landfills’ work faces, the areas where fresh waste is dumped, are responsible for a huge share of methane emissions in US landfills, yet work face emissions have largely gone uncounted by traditional ...

Class Three landfills hold our household trash, which is called municipal solid waste. For the purposes of this question, we’ll focus on Class Three landfills and how they prevent water contamination.