An independent study has been commissioned into the effects of emissions from a landfill site. Staffordshire County Council said researchers would speak to residents, businesses and schools in ...
A landfill is a place of perpetual motion, where mountains of garbage can rise in days and crews race to contain the influx ...
Every year, Americans dump over 250 million metric tons of garbage into landfills, where it seems to magically disappear from our lives. In reality, our trash either gets fossilized or digested by ...
A quarter of people feel that homeware trends are changing at an increasingly fast pace, with 62% admitting to throwing away ...
Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is underestimating methane emissions from landfills, urban areas and U.S. states, according to a new study led by researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson ...
The frenzy of bicycle purchases during the early COVID-19 pandemic is about to make the problem even worse. But one Sydney ...
That’s because landfills aren’t just piles of garbage: When organic matter like food and yard waste decompose in the oxygen-free environment of a landfill, it creates methane and carbon dioxide.
Most Americans are unaware that reducing methane emissions is the single most impactful action we can take right now to slow global warming. This super-pollutant’s ability to trap heat and warm ...
Residents close to a landfill site say a smell like rotten eggs is making them ill Residents living close to a landfill site say it is emitting a rotten egg smell that is so bad it is making them ill.
Tolvik's annual survey of UK Energy from Waste Statistics revealed a 5.2% rise in residual waste sent to EfWs in 2023. Defra has stopped all new ...