landfill, Tag

It takes hundreds of years for disposable diapers to decompose in landfills - but this new machine can turn 220 pounds of dirty diapers into clean, raw materials in a single hour...

A devastating garbage landslide precipitated by heavy rainfall wounded six people and killed 16 in Maputo, Mozambique, The Guardian reported. The 42-acre Hulene dump — located in the impoverished neighborhood of Hulene...

You now have one more reason to love IKEA. By 2020, the Swedish company plans to cut food waste by 50% at its stores — including its restaurants and smaller bistros. To accomplish this, employees will use digital scales...

Costa Rica is taking a stand against the plastic waste flooding our oceans and clogging up our landfills: the country is poised to become the first in the world to eliminate all single-use plastics...

Who says there's no such thing as second chances? An historically off-putting landfill in Brockton, Massachusetts, which was once dubbed Mount Trashmore for its overwhelming bad odor, has been transformed from a wasted space...

A former landfill has traded its dirty past for a new start as a nature reserve at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay. To educate the community about the reclaimed landscape, architecture firm FOG Studio teamed up...

In the UK, only one in every 400 paper coffee cup is recycled. Starbucks is partnering with Frugalpac, a manufacturer of recyclable cups made entirely from recycled paper, to help combat this wasteful dilemma. The trial launched...

Last summer, officials in Beirut, Lebanon closed their main landfill, but they forgot one important thing: they failed to provide for a replacement. Now a health crisis mounts as two million tons of trash spill into...

Plastic bottles come with a higher price tag than most realize: they can take up to 1,000 years to decompose in a landfill. The fact that at least half of all water bottles are used only once makes the waste that much more...

Plastic bottles come with a higher price tag than most realize: they can take up to 1,000 years to decompose in a landfill. The fact that at least half of all water bottles are used only once makes the waste that much more...

When officials in Beirut, Lebanon closed their main landfill last summer, they provided no replacement. Now a health crisis mounts as trash spills into the streets, creating what people have begun to call a ‘river of trash.’...

In late January, a fire broke out in a landfill in Mumbai, India, and the plume of smoke being produced is so massive that NASA Earth Observatory is publishing pictures of the fire taken from space...

No longer are vultures to be depicted as heartless, hungry scavengers circling the lost traveler in the desert. The people at Gallinazo Avisa, or Vultures Warn, are giving vultures quite a PR boost by using the birds to find...

No longer are vultures to be depicted as heartless, hungry scavengers circling the lost traveler in the desert. The people at Gallinazo Avisa, or Vultures Warn, are giving vultures quite a PR boost by using the birds to find...

It might keep your coffee hot without burning your hand, but plastic foam – more commonly known as Styrofoam – is one of the most harmful materials around when it comes to the environment...