How sewage treatment plants could handle food waste, sparing landfills and the climate

Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Beneath layers of waste, landfills around the US have been reaching scorching temperatures, and neighbors have been getting sick.

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 ...

U.S. Landfills Are Getting a Second Life as Solar Farms

New data show that local governments are inking increasingly ambitious deals for solar projects on capped brownfield sites.
Washington State Department of Ecology

Ecology grants and strong partnerships drive innovative methane reduction at landfills

Grant recipients of Ecology's landfill methane emissions reduction grant program are having success reducing methane ...