David Kempisty   Each week, millions of Americans roll their bins to the curb and never think twice about what comes next.

Galena City Council discussed proposals for dealing with the city's growing landfill issue, including constructing a new cell ...

Federal regulators say it’s an imminent danger, a Los Angeles County supervisor says she has “lost faith” in its management and aggrieved neighbors have filed two lawsuits demanding an end to its ...

HURLEY, N.Y. — Landfill problems that took decades to identify and address may be coming to a resolution with long-term solutions apparently in place for leachate control systems. Supervisor Melinda ...

Courtesy Beyond Toxics The county had to turn instead to the Coffin Butte Landfill in neighboring Benton County. But that landfill is filling up and has applied to expand its capacity. It’s also been ...

Colleen O’Neil, of the Mountain Watershed Association, fixes a crooked sign posted near a landfill's discharge pipe that flows into Sewickley Creek in Yukon, Pa. Credit: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate ...

Last year, Brandi Howse’s annual mammogram returned a grim diagnosis: Stage 3 breast cancer. To save her life, she had her breasts removed, then her ovaries. She’s free of the disease now and ...

Most people don’t think about where our trash goes once we bag it up and get it to the curb. It disappears into a trash truck and we probably don’t give it another thought. But here’s the reality: If ...

For more than three months, a fire burned mostly underground at a landfill wedged into a ravine about 15 miles northeast of Birmingham. The landfill was supposed to accept only green waste, such as ...

Environmental stewardship requires more than protecting our own backyard. We must address the waste problem at the source — our own habits. A view of a valley in Seneca County that Seneca Meadows ...

Mayor Levine Cava and the Department of Solid Waste Management unveil winners of Public Innovation Challenge tasked with propelling waste diversion and sustainable solutions across Miami-Dade Today, ...