For the first time, the central government employed a legal mechanism to act in place of a prefectural government and push ahead land reclamation work in Okinawa Prefecture for the contentious ...

An engineer explains landfill science and why landfills are surprisingly a low-impact way of dealing with our garbage.

The Pitkin County Board of County Commissioners heard updates on Tuesday on the design and engineering progress of a proposal to expand the Pitkin County Solid Waste Center. The landfill originally ...

The first one is that the height of the landfill may increase if the groundwater is at 950 feet above sea level or higher, with the other being that the lowest reach of the landfill must be no less ...

Federal regulators have given conditional approval to some elements of General Electric's planned PCB landfill on Woodland Road in Lee, but they are seeking changes as well. Among those changes are ...

DO NOT CROSS: Lyman Street in the River Arts District is one of the many places in Asheville where construction is booming. Photo by Jessica Wakeman Landfills tend to fall in the “out of sight, out of ...

Developing a compliance approach for a new regulation sometimes means overlooking unintended consequences of the chosen compliance method. Preparing for compliance with the new U.S. Environmental ...

Major landfill site operator, SITA (GB) Ltd, is employing the UK’s first new improved Cat 826G landfill compactor from UK Caterpillar dealer, Finning (UK) Ltd, as part of an overall strategy to ...

The landfill improvement project is included in the county’s capital improvement program, with $1 million allocated for 2025 and $5 million in 2026. One person watching the process closely is ...

Birmingham needs to expand its existing Eastern landfill by spring 2019 to accommodate the city's garbage, the public works director said. Construction of the new cell is expected to cost $7 million, ...

Landfills have a finite operational and economic life. When waste can no longer be accepted and the facility closes, it transitions from an income source to a financial and environmental liability.