Landfill: Page 89


  • 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
  • MINOT, N.D. -- Debris removed from flooded homes here is taken to a city landfill, Aug.4, 2011.
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    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
  • MINOT, N.D. -- Debris removed from flooded homes here is taken to a city landfill, Aug.4, 2011.
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    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
  • MINOT, N.D. -- Debris removed from flooded homes here is taken to a city landfill, Aug.4, 2011.
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    Maine to run out of landfill space by 2025, state report predicts

    A state study reminds residents that if something isn’t done soon, the state will run out of places to stash its trash.

    By Shauna Blackmon • April 23, 2013
  • EPA: Landfill emissions have dropped

    Less trash and better technology are helping to reduce the amount harmful gases from being released into the atmosphere.

    By Shauna Blackmon • April 22, 2013
  • Bad assumptions created $200M contamination problem in Wyoming

    For many years, Wyoming landfills went without liners because some through the dry weather would prevent leachate. 

    By Shauna Blackmon • April 22, 2013
  • NJ landfill deal runs afoul of locals

    Neither party is happy and the city is stuck with a smelly landfill and angry residents.

    By Shauna Blackmon • April 18, 2013
  • Remains of 9/11 victims found in N.Y. landfill

    Workers at the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island have been sifting through tons of trash to try to find the remains of 1,119 missing victims.

    By Shauna Blackmon • April 17, 2013
  • Dallas landfill undergoes overhaul after errors cause $1.1M loss

    The McCommas Bluff Landfill in Dallas is trying to fix its sloppy habits.

    By Shauna Blackmon • April 16, 2013