MEMO TO: South Carolina County Officials FROM: State Supreme Court RE: Industrial Solid Waste Management Your voice in landfill siting is not the last word — particularly if your waste plan is vague or indifferent...

Santa Clarita, Calif. – Browning Ferris Industries (BFI) has formally withdrawn its permit applications to make Elsemere Canyon a trash dump, ending a 15-year-long battle between the company and local residents. BFI, which owns about 1,200 acres...

Columbus, Ohio -- A new bill is proposing changes to Ohio’s 71 construction and demolition (C&D) debris landfills, such as replacing $3,000 annual license fees with tipping fees of 30 cents per cubic yard...

THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECtion Agency (EPA) has finalized a long-anticipated rule permitting the transformation of qualifying landfills into bioreactors. While not all states will make use of the EPA's new flexibility, industry observers view the...

Geneva -- The Basel Action Network (BAN), Seattle, has released two independent studies revealing that discarded mobile phones that no longer contain batteries still qualify as hazardous waste. The studies, funded by the US Environmental...

Wisconsin residents have recycled more materials during the past 10 years, which has led to a reduction of landfills, news sources report.

Baton Rouge, La. -- The Shaw Group Inc.'s subsidiary, LFG Specialties, has signed an agreement to supply a landfill leachate evaporator system (E-vap) to the Beijing Er Qing Environmental Engineering Group Co. This system uses renewable landfill...

Atlanta -- The Georgia Environmental Protection Division has denied Complex Environmental, a development company, the rights to build a more than 1,000-acre landfill in Taliaferro County, Ga. With Atlanta’s Live Oak landfill closing in 2005, a...

Toronto – Environment Minister Leona Dombrowsky proposed legislation to the Ontario government this past week that would block an abandoned, open-pit mine from being used as a landfill site. If the Adams Mine Landfill had been approved, Toronto’s...

Ventura County, Calif. – To generate approximately $2 million per year in revenue, the county will increase tipping fees at its Simi Valley landfill by 500 percent this July. Despite objections from several cities, county officials voted to...