With residents producing about 1.5 million tons of waste every year, the Md. county says it needs its incinerator until, likely, 2031, while it develops more environmentally friendly solutions.

Montgomery County may need to spend more than $57 million over four years on maintenance for the county’s trash incinerator in Dickerson despite County Executive Marc Elrich promising years ago ...

Bilal Motley grew up in Chester, Pennsylvania, where nearly everyone he knew suffered from asthma, a stark reality reflected in the city’s childhood asthma rate of 27%. The rate is over four times the ...

The Doral incinerator closed in early 2023 after a fire, forcing Miami-Dade to shift all of its trash disposal to landfills — both local and as far away as Central Florida.