Garbage piling up in landfills isn’t just an eyesore, it’s also a climate nightmare, belching out large amounts of planet-warming methane gas. In the United States, the problem could be much ...
Every year, Americans dump over 250 million metric tons of garbage into landfills, where it seems to magically disappear from our lives. In reality, our trash either gets fossilized or digested by ...
A landfill is a place of perpetual motion, where mountains of garbage rise in days and crews race to contain the influx of ...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is underestimating methane emissions from landfills, urban areas and U.S. states, according to a new study led by researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson ...
That’s because landfills aren’t just piles of garbage: When organic matter like food and yard waste decompose in the oxygen-free environment of a landfill, it creates methane and carbon dioxide.
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A former chemical plant dumped thousands of tons of industrial waste around the San Francisco Bay Area. The deposits were ...
Most Americans are unaware that reducing methane emissions is the single most impactful action we can take right now to slow global warming. This super-pollutant’s ability to trap heat and warm ...
The frenzy of bicycle purchases during the early COVID-19 pandemic is about to make the problem even worse. But one Sydney ...
Tolvik's annual survey of UK Energy from Waste Statistics revealed a 5.2% rise in residual waste sent to EfWs in 2023. Defra has stopped all new ...