COLERAIN TWP., Ohio ‒ What could possibly be interesting about trash? At Rumpke Sanitary Landfill, the answer is a lot. The landfill, often referred to as Mount Rumpke, expands across 554 acres ...

Salt Lake City operated the landfill from 1959 to 1979, filling at least 620 acres of the total 770-acre parcel with municipal waste. The trash was buried in unlined shallow trenches and covered ...

Top US cattle feeding companies sent 1,000-pound carcasses to a Kansas landfill, where they were flattened by loader machines and mixed with trash, after a June heatwave killed thousands of cows.

When something like a banana is thrown in the trash, it gets buried in a landfill where there’s no oxygen. Without oxygen, it can’t break down properly like it would in nature. Oxygen is essential for ...

‘Trash soup’ fills this old landfill after storms. The Inland Port plans to clean it up. The Utah Inland Port Authority has acquired a 770-acre toxic former landfill in Salt Lake City and has ...

A black bear rummages through the recycling pile at the Pitkin County Solid Waste Center. About 25-30 bears live near the landfill and regularly feed from the working face, where trash gets compacted ...

The county’s waste facility burns trash to reduce the volume of waste going into the landfill. It also generates enough electricity to power 23,000 homes a year.

A project to capture and convert methane into natural gas at Smith Lake Landfill could net the Roanoke Valley Resource Authority more than $800,000 in its first year, officials said.