Naperville, Ill. — An underground fire at a former landfill in suburban Chicago’s Greene Valley Forest Preserve continues to smolder while investigators have yet to discover the location of an oxygen leak that’s fueling the blaze, according to a...

Chesapeake -- Virginia's Southeastern Public Service Authority has decided to accept construction and demolition (C&D) debris at its landfill despite threats of a lawsuit from private sector operators over the landfill's disposal rates. According...

ABOUT 7,000 OVERWEIGHT buzzards are going hungry in Colombia because of a new garbage dump. The flock of birds put on their superfluous pounds munching on the 300 tons of trash that was brought each day to the Veracruz de Santa Marta dump, which...

SOLID WASTE FACILITY MANAGERS will attest that nothing harms community relations like poor odor control. But help is on the way, thanks to the Washington, D.C.-based National Solid Wastes Management Association's (NSWMA) report, “Managing Solid...

Atlanta — A group of Fulton County, Ga., residents is considering suing the city of Atlanta to prevent the city from shipping its trash to a transfer station in their neighborhood, according to the Web site of WSB-TV in Atlanta. The Welcome All...

New York — Severn Trent Services, Ft. Washington, Pa., has begun providing operational, maintenance and management services for the leachate control system at Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island. The company’s eight-year contract has been valued...

Honolulu — A Honolulu official says the city will not ship its trash to Idaho or Washington state, a move the municipality had been exploring. Frank Doyle, environmental services director for the city, told KXLY-TV in Spokane, Wash., that...

Washington, D.C. -- The National Solid Wastes Management Association (NSWMA) has published "Managing Solid Waste Facilities to Prevent Odor," a report describing methods to control odors at landfills and transfer stations. The report also explains...

FOR MANY YEARS, solid waste collected in the Alexandria, La., area was dumped at a landfill leased and operated by the city. In the early 1980s, state environmental authorities began to enforce new landfill standards and ordered the city to...

JUST MONTHS AFTER IT WAS ISSUED, a federal rule that allows landfill operators to test alternate operational technologies such as bioreactors and phytocovers is being contested by an environmental group. The GrassRoots Recycling Network (GRRN)...