Landfill
The term sanitary landfill was first used in the 1930s to refer to the compacting of solid waste materials. Initially adopted by New York City and Fresno, California, the sanitary landfill us...
Read more
Landfill
Surface water, oceans and landfills are traditionally the main repositories for society's solid and hazardous waste. Landfills are located in excavated areas such as sand and gravel ...
Read more
Soil Liner
One of the requirements of modern sanitary landfills is that a soil liner be placed on top of the existing soil. Liners are needed to prevent the penetration of landfill leachate into the s...
Read more
Solid Waste Landfilling
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) defines solid waste as garbage, refuse, sludge from sewage treatment plants, ash from incinerators, mining waste, constructi...
Read more
Tipping Fee
The fee charged by the owner or operator of a landfill for the acceptance of a unit weight or volume of solid waste for disposal, usually done by the truckload. The tipping fee is passed b...
Read more
Landfill
A landfill is a large area of land or an excavated site that is designed and built to receive wastes. There were 3,536 active municipal landfills in the United States in 1995 according to the...
Read more
Many people live their lives unaware of an accumulating danger that threatens the human lifestyle and existence. America creates more trash than any other nation on the planet. We as Americans are ...
Read more
The controversy over the biggest dump for Hurricane Katrina debris got a lot messier with a lawsuit claiming the city and the landfill's operators illegally used private land.The suit is the latest...
Read more
One Staten Island politician apparently doesn't have a sweet tooth for a locally-made vanilla ice cream with brownie chunks and cherries.That's because the ice cream in question, marketed under the...
Read more
A family recovered their mother's lost wedding rings after searching through nearly a thousand bags of trash at a suburban landfill.Susan Myers, 83, of Downingtown, lost the jewelry at Paoli Hospit...
Read more
Starting next summer, many power plants, hospitals, universities and companies in 36 states will be forced to store low-level radioactive waste on their own property because a South Carolina landfi...
Read more
In this rural county beset by high unemployment, the soon-to-arrive day when the local nuclear-waste landfill closes its doors to nearly all debris is no cause for celebration.Chem-Nuclear, a dispo...
Read more
Starting next summer, many power plants, hospitals, universities and companies in 36 states will be forced to store low-level radioactive waste on their own property because a South Carolina landfi...
Read more
The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday fined the federal Energy Department $1.1 million over violations of an agreement to clean up the Hanford nuclear reservation, the nation's most pollut...
Read more
Most Americans probably sleep through the pre-dawn arrival of the garbage truck. But if you do happen to be there when it comes, you might want to take a look at who owns it. Chances are, that has ...
Read more
Landfill
Landfill
Landfill
When Landfills Are Full, Where Will the Trash Go?
Lawsuit: Katrina landfill illegal
