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 ...

A new approach for predicting the contents of municipal solid waste can help improve the efficiency of recycling and landfill operations. The new method applies a conventional approach to forecasting ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Here are three key takeaways from the report: 1. The US has a big trash problem, but ...

UMK lecturer suggests using local expertise in biotechnology, implemented at a low cost to process solid waste either on a large or small scale. Sanitary landfilling is a conventional method but is ...

Ana Baptista received funding from the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) which received a grant from the JPB Foundation for the preparation of the report "U.S. Municipal Solid Waste ...