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Figure 1: Quantity of municipal solid waste disposed of in US landfills. In the near term, landfilling is expected to be the dominant method to manage municipal waste in the US. We found that the ...

Take a look inside your garbage can. How much garbage does your family throw away each day? Each week? Where does all of that trash go? It's tempting to think that the trash we throw away actually ...

A new Yale-led study indicates that we’re disposing of more than twice as much solid waste as we thought we were. The Yale researchers use a more direct method based on numbers reported by the ...

While in recent legislative sessions the spotlight has been on “high-profile” waste issues such as sludge-spreading, burning construction and demolition debris, electronic waste, medical waste, ...

On April 1, new regulations for Solid Waste Management will kick in, requiring everyone to adopt a four-stream waste segregation system from the outset. For those generating substantial waste, ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released “Advancing Sustainable Materials Management: Facts and Figures” Nov. 12. The report highlights data on national municipal solid waste (MSW) and ...

York County Solid Waste Authority’s plan to process waste at its Manchester Township facility was greenlit by the township’s supervisors, potentially sending a lifeline to a nearly full landfill in ...