Landfill

Landfills are essential, even with the push to divert more would-be-trash and put it to use — and even as alternative means to manage it as trash evolve. Still, even the largest disposal sites are finite, so the industry continually works to find...

Of all environmental sample types — groundwater, wastewater, soil — leachate is the most complicated to sample and analyze, because it contains many constituents that landfill operators must be aware of and understand...

About 40 percent of the food produced globally gets wasted at some point along the food chain. And according to the food waste reduction think tank ReFED, seeing that food gets to its final destination for consumption has to do largely with...

It’s no secret that the global fashion industry generates a huge amount of waste. A full garbage truck of clothes is burned or sent to a landfill every second, according to a report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a non-profit that aims to...

By hiding the real costs of landfills to the public, the true value of recycling is hidden, as well as the critical gains from avoiding environmental disasters associated with releases from waste containment. Bad decisions will follow from...

WFLA News 8 recently reported that the stay-at-home order that has us cooking, organizing and renovating has caused a spike in the amount of garbage being taken to landfills...

As part of its Earth Day reporting, Dane County, Wisconsin ABC affiliate WKOW looked into how plastic food packaging is exacerbating the “already troublesome plastic waste problem landfills are facing” all over the state.  ...

Shakopee, Minn.-based Dem-Con, which started exclusively in the garbage disposal business in the 1960’s, did not think landfilling alone was its future. So, the third generation, family-owned company underwent a paradigm shift around the year 2000.

The 2020 Waste360 40 Under 40 award recipient discusses what it takes to make zero waste programs work and shares insight for youth considering a career in solid waste.

The collaboration is an important step in the demonstration of the technology and potential future commercialization.