Rome, N.Y. touts results of waste limit law

By limiting how much residents can throw away, the city saw a dip of 11 tons of waste ending up in landfills in the last year.

By Shauna Blackmon • May 15, 2013

Burning St. Louis landfill faces court decision

After burning for over two years, a judge says he will make a decision on how to move forward with the landfill.

By Shauna Blackmon • May 14, 2013

New hauling program gets blame for roadside litter in Maine

Maine has switched to a "pay as you throw" system that is pushing some residents to illegally toss their trash.

By Shauna Blackmon • May 14, 2013

Saratoga County, N.Y. seeks bids for landfill

After more than ten years of lying dormant, the county is hoping to sell the landfill property.

By Shauna Blackmon • May 13, 2013

Mass. adopts zero-waste plan, ends ban on incineration

After being banned for 10 years, incinerators in Massachusetts are starting back up.

By Shauna Blackmon • May 13, 2013

London landfill gets new life as rare animals' nature reserve

120-acres of a closed London landfill will now be a home for rare birds and other animals.

By Shauna Blackmon • May 13, 2013

Facing $3.5 million in damages, Iowa City landfill fights insurance over fire coverage

A fire caused $3.5 million in damage at an Iowa City landfill last year.

By Shauna Blackmon • May 10, 2013

Child porn stash found at landfill, workers help identify culprit

After workers found boxes of child porn they were able to help authorities find the man who dropped it off.

By Shauna Blackmon • May 10, 2013

Human skull found at Calif. recycling facility

The remains showed up this week in the middle of a recycling plant.

By Shauna Blackmon • May 10, 2013

Md. county to allow guns at landfill

A gun activist group helped overturn an over 20-year-old law banning firearms on landfill property.

By Shauna Blackmon • May 10, 2013

Foul-smelling landfill offers hotel rooms to neighbors in Mo.

During smelly construction, the landfill is willing to pay for people to stay somewhere else.

By Shauna Blackmon • May 9, 2013

Rumpke reports 3-acre 'shift in buried waste' at Ky. landfill

A landfill in Pendleton County, Kentucky is facing a waste shift that will take weeks to fix.

By Shauna Blackmon • May 7, 2013

Facing zero waste initiatives, haulers follow Waste Management's lead

Waste haulers need to adapt to more recycling and less waste.

By Shauna Blackmon • May 7, 2013

New dumping fee creates incredibly long lines at N.D. landfill

A new law requires incoming and exiting cars to be weighed--but there's only one scale at the Bismarck landfill.

By Shauna Blackmon • May 7, 2013

N.Y. landfill's solar cover wins American Public Works award

The solar project provides 50% of the electricity to run the ARC Recycling Center.

By Shauna Blackmon • May 6, 2013

Boy Scout troop using local landfill as campground

120 Scouts gathered at the local landfill in La Crosse, Wis. to learn about waste and the environment.

By Shauna Blackmon • May 6, 2013

Closed for 20 years, landfill in West, Texas to reopen for fertilizer explosion debris

After a fertilizer plan exploded last month, community members have lots of materials that need to go somewhere.

By Shauna Blackmon • May 3, 2013

Landfill search leads to three more arrests in Boston marathon bombing

More evidence is being dug up to find those involved with the bombing.

By Shauna Blackmon • May 2, 2013

New York restaurants commit to less food waste

Bloomberg has been on a waste diversion rampage in efforts to clean up New York City, and food waste is his next target.

By Shauna Blackmon • May 1, 2013

N.Y. landfill to get $625K for landfill closure costs

The New Lebanon Landfill is expected to be reimbursed for 90% of the costs to monitor the closed landfill.

By Shauna Blackmon • April 29, 2013

Brave soul finds $15K wedding ring in 5 tons of trash

A particularly unlucky mistake left an employee of the Drake Hotel searching through a trash compactor for hours.

By Shauna Blackmon • April 29, 2013

EPA awards $4M to clean brownfields

In an effort to make the areas usable again, the EPA is handing out a second round of grants.

By Shauna Blackmon • April 29, 2013

FBI combs landfill for evidence from Boston bombing

The Federal Bureau of Investigation hopes to find evidence tying Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to the Boston bombing.

By Shauna Blackmon • April 26, 2013

Advanced Disposal landfill in Vt. awaits permission to reopen

After a prolonged shutdown, Advanced Disposal is fighting to reopen the Moretown landfill.

By Shauna Blackmon • April 24, 2013

Wisconsin finds trash that never made it to the landfill

Residents of Eau Claire County are fed up with the local forest being used as a local dump.

By Shauna Blackmon • April 23, 2013