The landfill liner is usually made of clay, which is bonded to or layered between some type of textile, according to a fact sheet from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Lining is a crucial ...

Miramar Landfill / Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle. San Diego landfills have for years been racking-up thousands of dollars in fines for leaking methane, a major cause of climate change, as operators ...

Every day, methane gas seeps from Pacific Northwest landfills and it's estimated about 30% of today’s global warming is driven by methane. Heather Kuoppamaki, senior environmental engineer at ...

Landfills typically work on a grid system, meaning that material from a particular dump truck or garbage can be traced to particular area of a landfill, said Eric Bartelink, ...

Solid waste, and the landfills that accept them, are regulated by ADEM. However, waste from “silviculture,” or tree farming, is specifically excluded from the definition of solid waste, ADEM said.

BENGALURU, India — Landfills are releasing far more planet-warming methane into the atmosphere from the decomposition of waste than previously thought, a study suggests. Scientists used ...

Rechargeable batteries were supposed to keep trash out of landfills. Instead they replaced old garbage with new. Consumers throw away billions of battery chargers every year; cellphone chargers ...