ELLERY – In light of the recent fire at Chautauqua County’s landfill, officials are reminding the public of what is and isn’t accepted. The County Landfill is a Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) landfill.

The Zero Waste International Alliance (ZWIA) defines Zero Waste broadly as conserving resources through responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery without burning and without releases to ...

The space set aside to hold New Hanover County's trash is slowly, but surely, filling up as a growing population and natural disasters bring more garbage to the county's landfill. The New Hanover ...

Have you ever considered what happens to the materials you throw out in your garbage can? Where do they go and what happens to them? What does the journey look like for your banana peel? If you were ...

DOUGLASS (Mont.) — The state has spent more than $1 million conducting testing and installing home water filters in its response to chemical contamination found in groundwater around the closed ...

Every year, millions of tonnes of food end up in South Africa’s landfills. This is a wasted resource that deepens ...

From a climate action perspective, addressing methane is the fastest thing we can do to affect climate change right now,” ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s method of detecting methane leaks at landfills is flawed, and emissions of this powerful heat-trapping gas are likely much higher than what is being reported ...

Local officials said in a lawsuit they were “leapfrogged” by Republic’s Middle Point Landfill expansion application.

JOHNSTON – Humans have been talking trash for thousands of years, and today is no exception as Mayor Joseph Polisena Jr. makes a slow, dusty ascent to the 250-foot summit of the state’s Central ...

Coffin Butte Landfill, which is located in Benton County, might expand soon. The site draws waste from nearly two dozen Oregon counties and accepts more than one million tons of garbage annually. But ...

THE TWILIGHT ZONE — Picture if you will the citizens of a small town in Northeast Ohio, facing a daunting toxic threat yet trapped in a maze of regulatory capture at the so-called Environmental ...