A coffee cup tossed in the trash will either be reduced to ash in a giant fire or spend its days buried underground. So which one is it? The answer depends on where it was tossed. But assuming it ...

A recent op-ed [Aug. 23, Opinion, “There are other ways to deal with trash than to burn it in south Hartford“] argued that landfilling our municipal waste was an environmentally just and preferred ...

A growing share of Twin Cities trash is piling up in landfills, despite a yearslong state effort to steer the region away from burying garbage. Local landfills now want permission to expand capacity ...

SPECIAL REPORT / The European Union’s lead civil servant for the environment has called for a ban on landfilling and warned that separate collection is not enough if the EU is to improve its ...

SPECIAL REPORT / As the European Commission prepares to review the EU’s waste targets, the plastics industry, a symbol of the EU’s ‘throw-away society’, is one of the focal points in discussions on ...

While the Tynes Bay facility is being repaired, the Ministry is “preparing for its last resort for waste disposal – and that is reopening a portion of Marsh Folly for landfilling,” Acting Minister of ...

The author is a research fellow at the Sejong Institute of Science and Technology and former director at the Korea Institute of Energy Research. One month has passed since direct landfilling of ...