Less than a month after visiting the St. Louis area to tour an area contaminated by radioactive material, the head of the ...

The smoldering chemical reaction inside Chiquita Canyon Landfill is growing and could last for decades, according to a new ...

The landfill is designed so nothing breaks down organically. What does this mean? When something like a banana is thrown in the trash, it gets buried in a landfill where there’s no oxygen. Without ...

Hoads Wood, a beauty spot in Ashford, Kent, designated a site of special scientific interest, was described as an “environmental disaster” by local people after it was buried under landfill waste.

Many are already being buried in landfills and sediment. "If you think about a mobile phone, you've got this rectangular shape with materials that never occur together in nature," Gabbott said.

Folks wonder if it all ends up in the same place — the Kalmar Landfill — as actual trash, and whether much of it gets either buried or burned at Olmsted County's Waste-to-Energy Facility.

Bondad Landfill in La Plata County near Ignacio has three remaining waste cells, areas for waste to be dumped, compacted and buried, across about 40 acres, said Mike McComb, a Fort Lewis College ...

A smoldering chemical reaction brewing deep inside the recently closed Chiquita Canyon Landfill in Castaic now threatens to consume an entire 160-acre canyon of buried waste, endangering a storage ...