CO county government looking to privatize landfill operations

Pitkin County officials in Colorado are working their way toward privatizing their landfill operations, but contractors are feeling like they were strung along.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 18, 2015

Lower Saucon officials fear landfill is unsafe for residents, request state study

A DEP inspection found methane levels that were more than 10,000 parts per million in sections of the landfill.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 18, 2015

NJ town recieves funding to start school food recycling project

The Sustainable Jersey Small Grants Program is awarding $200,000 this year to municipalities for projects. 

By Jonathan Barnes • May 18, 2015

Industry odors easy for neighbors to smell, trickier to solve or prevent

Preventing or mitigating those odors requires a strategy and an understanding of the nature of the business.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 15, 2015

Texas A&M looks to take on food waste

Texas A&M academics are brainstorming ways to reduce food waste at the university, across the nation and worldwide.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 15, 2015

Using 60 mil versus 80 mil landfill liner debated in MI

A Wayne County, MI commissioner is concerned that a 60 mil liner to be used for an addition to a landfill is not thick enough to avoid harming local waterways.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 15, 2015

Nebraska landfill won't take Iowa birds

The owner of the landfill had been contemplating it.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 14, 2015

Wiretaps, raids lead to landfill workers charged, arrested in Baltimore

Five Baltimore city DPW workers are charged with crimes they are alleged to have committed while working at city landfills.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 14, 2015

Spicher's Appliances partners with GE recycling; targets 'energy hogs'

Citing the need for doing "the right thing," the Hagerstown, MD-based retailer expects to recycle about 10,000 appliances yearly.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 13, 2015

CA county contract decreases landfill fees

Today, Stanislaus County’s board of supervisors could OK an agreement on recycling and garbage removal that would  decrease the fees paid by cities to send waste to the Fink Road Landfill and to the county’s waste-burning facility.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 12, 2015

NH Local Farms Project to plant atop closed landfill

The Keene Energy and Agriculture Project in New Hampshire could be a model of effective, carbon-negative re-use of acreage in a closed landfill.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 11, 2015

Group denied on 2 of 3 concerns with Ontario County Landfill expansion

A New York judge ruled against most of a local group's issues with the Ontario County Landfill, but lingering questions and potential conflicts of interest remain.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 11, 2015

Birds killed due to avian flu cause landfill concern

Millions of dead birds could be transported across Iowa to be buried in a landfill, and officials in the county where the landfill is located are worried.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 8, 2015

Pack to Plate looking to give students food lessons, prevent waste

A Georgia nonprofit is instructing children about healthy food choices by teaching them about produce and attempting to save food from being tossed.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 7, 2015

TerraCycle embraces the challenge of recycling K-Cups

A New Jersey recycling company has tackled the challenge of recycling K-Cups, but will shoppers go along with the effort?

By Jonathan Barnes • May 7, 2015

Consumers Energy aims to remove 1M cubic yards of landfill waste from stream

The target for this is by 2019's close. 

By Jonathan Barnes • May 6, 2015

UPS agreement with Clean Energy taps renewable natural gas

With this move, other shipping industry firms will likely follow its lead.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 6, 2015

California company plans to convert emissions into electricity

Ener-Core’s CEO says his company’s technology makes waste into electricity.

By Jonathan Barnes • May 5, 2015

Republic Services gas-to-energy facility planned near Los Angeles

The company's recently announced initiative focuses on communities and people, safety, materials management, and operations.  

By Jonathan Barnes • May 4, 2015

Rumpke blankets odors at OH landfill, complaints down

The waste and recycling company said complaints are falling due to measures it took to contain the odor. 

By Nicole Wrona • April 28, 2015

Fenimore landfill owners want officials to vacate, restore NJ site

Strategic Environmental Partners requested that state officials abandon the seized landfill and return the site to its original condition. 

By Nicole Wrona • April 28, 2015

FL county allowed to use waste in construction of roads

Pasco County plans to use landfill waste converted into ash in roadways across the area. 

By Nicole Wrona • April 27, 2015

From greenhouse problem to green-energy solution, SWACO methane project generates $1M

Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio and Aria Energy struck a deal two years ago to make a green-energy solution.

By Nicole Wrona • April 22, 2015

NY county bans fracking waste in landfills

Albany County Legislature in New York unanimously passed a law prohibiting fracking waste from being disposed of at any site in the county.

By Nicole Wrona • April 17, 2015

Waste Management seeks to unload residential real estate holdings in IL

The waste and recycling hauler purchased the homes as part of a deal with the builder, and is now seeking to sell the properties.

By Nicole Wrona • April 16, 2015