Landfill Operations

Some landfills are moving away from conventional caps and installing phytocaps—vegetative soil covers. They typically do it for two main reasons: These natural caps may help reduce leachate by uptaking water through their roots, and they improve...

Rutland, Vt.-based Casella Waste Systems, Inc. has announced its earnings for the third quarter of 2018. For the quarter, revenues were $172.8 million, up $12.6 million, or 7.8 percent, from the same period in 2017...

The owners of the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton, Mo., are suing Mallinckrodt LLC to help pay costs of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cleanup. The EPA ordered a $205 million cleanup to remove radioactive waste from the site...

It’s one of those headlines you can’t ignore: “People Are Living Inside Landfills as the World Drowns in its Own Trash.” The Huffington Post recently published an in-depth report about Bantar Gebang, Indonesia’s largest landfill, and the villages...

Over the past several months, a number of solid waste and recycling industry reports have been released from varied sources. In this month’s edition of Business Insights, we combine highlights from them...

A McLean, Ill., County landfill is set to close this weekend, but officials say it will not significantly impact residents or local governments in the Bloomington area...

One year ago, Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, leaving the island in a state of devastation and its residents with lack of access to electricity, safe and travelable roadways, shelter and basic necessities like clean water and food...