And for years, much of this refuse has ended up in the county's landfill, a primitive pit with a history of environmental problems. So when a North Carolina waste disposal company offered to build a ...

Hazardous chemical vapors are leaking through the top of an industrial waste dump along Lake Marion and are suspected of contaminating shallow groundwater near the surface of the 36-year-old site.

For more than three months, a fire burned mostly underground at a landfill wedged into a ravine about 15 miles northeast of Birmingham. The landfill was supposed to accept only green waste, such as ...

A stretch of gravel road, buried in the shadows of the forest west of Lake Worth, holds the key to two possible futures facing this slice of unincorporated Tarrant County. On one side, a massive sign ...

If spring cleaning is on your to-do list, it could cost you three times as much to do this year- or you might be left holding on to that trash you planned to dump. The city owned landfill is closed to ...

Sarah Olaguez of Citizens for Chiquita Canyon Closure protests in February to call for Chiquita Canyon Landfill in Castaic to be closed. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) For months now, ...

Landfill manager Merle Knight looking on as a truck is weighed at the scale shed Credit: Matthew Thorsen The Bristol landfill was buzzing with activity on a recent Saturday morning. A pickup truck ...