Photo Caption: This landfill in Comal County is 3,000 feet long and 1,300 feet wide. It can be seen from a considerable distance. Photograph by Forrest M. Mims III. Landfills have a very long history, ...
The final home for much of Houston’s municipal trash emits a putrid stench as hundreds of garbage trucks crawl up its dirt slopes every day. But one of the most potent gases released at the McCarty ...
Last year, Brandi Howse’s annual mammogram returned a grim diagnosis: Stage 3 breast cancer. To save her life, she had her breasts removed, then her ovaries. She’s free of the disease now and ...
'Zombie' Landfills Emit Tons Of Methane Decades After Shutting Down. Here's Why That's A Big Problem
Landfills are one of California’s largest sources of the greenhouse gas methane, which is dozens of times more powerful than carbon dioxide at heating up the planet. But even when landfills shut down, ...
Every year, millions of tons of food end up in South Africa's landfills. This is a wasted resource that deepens environmental ...
Dave Miller: This is Think Out Loud on OPB. I’m Dave Miller. We talk a lot about CO2 as a greenhouse gas and for good reason. Billions of metric tons of it go into the atmosphere every year, creating ...
This story is part of a series of check-ins on where things stand on big issues like housing, immigration and education at the midpoint of the State House calendar ...
Oil and gas production creates a lot of waste in Ohio. Much of it goes to the same landfills as household trash.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s method of detecting methane leaks at landfills is flawed, and emissions of this powerful heat-trapping gas are likely much higher than what is being reported ...
Incinerators reduce the amount of waste by as much as 90%, said Dan Pellowitz, executive director of Palm Beach County’s ...
New Hanover's landfill is filling up faster than expected. Here's what the county is doing about it.
The space set aside to hold New Hanover County's trash is slowly, but surely, filling up as a growing population and natural disasters bring more garbage to the county's landfill. The New Hanover ...
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Earth Day is April 22: Do You Know Which Everyday Items Are Clogging Up Your Local Landfill?
According to the EPA, the average American produced about five pounds of solid waste every day in 2018. Of those five pounds, about 1.16 were recycled, 0.42 went toward composting, and 0.30 pounds ...
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