A proposal to double the daily trash intake at an Orange County landfill has triggered backlash from residents, underscoring the county’s challenge in managing the stream of waste while managing the ...

SCOTT COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) has denied the permit for a proposed landfill in Scott County over environmental concerns. The Water ...

NEW YORK CITY, New York -- As food waste continues to pile up in landfills across the U.S., composting is gaining traction as more communities and policymakers look for ways to curb trash volumes and ...

Bacillus sp. are prominent sources of extracellular enzymes, especially proteases, which have been proposed for the eco-friendly recovery of silver from used X-ray films, as the conventional methods ...

Researchers at the organization predict disposal firms and recyclers will have more than 3.8 billion metric tons of discarded materials to handle in 2050—or 50 percent more than today. Landfill ...

As Maine towns are seeing their waste disposal costs continue to climb, some towns and other groups are looking for ways to reduce the tonnage they truck to landfills. Maine towns pay per ton of trash ...

LANSING, MI — Opponents of a controversial metro Detroit area hazardous waste landfill have filed an administrative appeal that seeks to overturn the state’s expansion approval. The March 24 filing ...

The review process to replace the Countryside landfill in Grayslake with a waste transfer station is set to begin. Waste Management of Illinois, which has operated Countryside for more than 30 years, ...

The Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Rostraver Township, Pa. accepts fracking waste. A study by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection found the liquid runoff from Pennsylvania ...

Valley-type landfills, a globally widespread source of contamination, produce leachate that significantly affecting adjacent soils. Clarifying leachate’s contribution to global biogeochemical cycles ...