Santa Barbara County’s nearly $130 million resource-recovery project at the Tajiguas Landfill has reached the six-month mark of construction.

As state pollution standards tighten, the Resource Recovery Project is intended to divert more incoming waste from the landfill, lengthening Tajiguas’ currently nine-year lifespan along the way.

The City of Saco held a groundbreaking ceremony on July 1 to celebrate upgrades to the city’s wastewater treatment facility. U.S. Sen. Susan Collins was among those present.

The county estimates about 60 percent of incoming MSW is either recyclable or compostable, Van Dyk says in a news release announcing its role in the project. The MRF is expected to recover that ...

The primary vendor is a San Luis Obispo–based investor group that has no track record managing solid waste. When the Tajiguas Resource Recovery Project was approved late in 2016, it appeared to be a ...

At the Center for Remanufacturing and Resource Recovery (C3R ®), we’re meeting the biggest challenges facing the remanufacturing industry. Our team of researchers, engineers, and experts combine the ...

The roughly $40 million project to rehab Carson City’s Water Resource Recovery Facility is nearing completion. Next month, the odor control system for the headworks where the waste water enters the ...

The Elk River co-op has owned the garbage-burning plant since 1989. In 2010 it bought the garbage processing plant and a landfill — which together comprise the Resource Recovery Project.

Tajiguas Landfill sits in an canyon above the Pacific Ocean on Santa Barbara County's Gaviota Coast. The Gaviota Coast Conservancy and many other groups have questioned the county’s proposed high-tech ...

DELTA TWP. — Construction work to rebuild the township's existing Water Resource Recovery Facility, now expected to cost approximately $90 million amid rising inflation, will begin in a month.