Walleys Quarry is a landfill site in Silverdale, Staffordshire, that has been at the centre of a years-long legal row over ...

Landfills are the third-largest source of methane in the U.S. It’s a climate super-pollutant that is 84 times more potent ...

Countries are meeting in South Korea this week to hash out the final details of a global treaty aimed at eliminating plastic ...

A decision to shut down a rubbish dump in Wakefield could lead to “long-term environmental pollution risks” for decades, a ...

The employees have said landfill operators knowingly diverted a "leachate" of untreated liquid wastewater that has been known ...

But part of that question, too – and one that has spurred conflict in this rulemaking process – is how protective the natural ...

"Landfills and wastewater treatment plants are usually studied ... The best practice would be to prevent the problem of plastic and PFAS pollution further upstream, he said. "It's time to tell people ...

A new project at a small landfill on Minnesota’s Iron Range is simultaneously helping to tackle two of society’s most vexing ...

A University of Illinois study has new findings concerning the fate of microplastics and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, ...

Scientists find that most of the microplastics and the 'forever chemicals' known as PFAS cycle through landfills and wastewater treatment plants and end up back in the environment.

Greenpeace Mexico activists protested Sunday at an open-air garbage dump in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, denouncing the plastic ...

Three air monitors now track fine particulate matter and volatile organic compounds around the Seneca Meadows landfill, with ...