Paul Hubbard, the Managing Director and CEO of Northpointe Energy, outlines the current options for disposing of municipal ...

The Kiteezi landfill near Kampala was expanded as part of the Kampala Institutional Infrastructure Development Project, allowing for the storage and treatment of ...

Around the world, waste generation rates are rising. In 2020, the world was estimated to generate 2.24 billion tonnes of solid waste, amounting to a footprint of 0.79 kilograms per person per day.

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 ...

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 ...

Burning trash has a long history in the United States, and municipal solid waste incinerators have sparked resistance in many places. As an environmental justice scholar who works directly with ...

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 ...