Beneath layers of waste, landfills around the US have been reaching scorching temperatures, spewing toxic gases and geysers ...

This episode looks at the evolution of the Price Landfill in South Jersey, ... AND DRUMS WERE BURIED IN SHALLOW PITS UNDERNEATH THE TRASH. SOME OF THESE DRUMS ARE REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN PUNCTURED.

The operators of the Big Sky Landfill near Birmingham agreed to pay a civil fine of $138,800 to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management and submit a plan to resolve the waste violations.

Excavators dug test pits for buried waste at Evans' Broadwell Road facility on Nov. 9 and 10, 2022. “This was a former gravel pit and the sand and gravels were removed and … waste was placed ...

The world's largest chocolate bar is buried there. A famous Nestlé Crunch Bar or Hershey bar – it depends on which Rumpke family member you ask, Yeager says – is buried in the landfill.

East of Houston’s city limits, a battered Interstate 10 bridge soars over a narrow point in the San Jacinto River, slicing across the peninsula that houses two waste pits where toxic sludge was ...

Within those pits are thousands of tons of solid waste: plastic, aluminum beer cans, ... Once landfills are full, the garbage is burned then buried. (Image credit: Alton Byers) ...

Excavators dug test pits for buried waste at Evans' Broadwell Road facility on Nov. 9 and 10, 2022. “We will work with Ohio EPA during the next week to evaluate the cleanup plan,” says ...

Top U.S. cattle feeding companies sent 1,000-pound carcasses to a Kansas landfill, where they were flattened by loader machines and mixed with trash, after a June heatwave killed thousands of cows ...

She wrote that where waste pits have been dug on their property, “the land is dead ground that caves in, and belches half-buried black plastic.” “Landowner consent does not have to be ...