Beneath layers of waste, landfills around the US have been reaching scorching temperatures, spewing toxic gases and geysers ...

Landfills are home to wild chemistry that can lead to different types of pollution. They’re also sites for clever engineering that seeks to mitigate that pollution.

According to the EPA, the average American produced about five pounds of solid waste every day in 2018. Of those five po ...

Cleanup crews contracted by the Army Corp of Engineers dumped asbestos-tainted wildfire debris in landfills that they shouldn ...

A landfill must be a set minimum distance from certain types of water sources under the state’s regulations. For wetlands and certain types of streams, it can be no closer than 200 feet; for ...

The Kingston Wastewater Treatment Plant is seen. A report found 89 million gallons of landfill leachate have been dumped into the Hudson and Mohawk rivers annually in recent years, thanks largely ...

The hazardous waste landfill off I-94 near Belleville receives low-radioactivity waste and hundreds of the most dangerous chemicals known to mankind.

As the population has grown in the region, so has the amount of garbage Horry County takes into its landfill. In the 2015 ...

A CBS News investigation tracked plastic cups from Starbucks recycling bins to landfills and incinerators across the country.