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

Drowning in plastic waste 09:02. Piece by piece, an environmental threat is piling up, and we're ALL to blame. Worse yet, even those of us trying to bring an end to the problem may not be doing as ...

Unfortunately, the largest “landfill” on Earth is actually in the North Pacific Ocean. The “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” is estimated to be anywhere from 3,100 square miles to twice the ...

Landfill succumbs to rain, spills trash into ocean at Ko Olina Published : Jan. 14, 2011 at 8:12 PM HST | Updated : Jan. 15, 2011 at 2:07 AM HST Email This Link ...

“The ocean covers 72 percent of our planet” said Boxall. “If we took every ship on the planet and went out and started picking the rubbish up, we’d be out there for hundreds of years.” ...

An estimated 20,000 metric tons of trash from the Guatemala City landfill flows down the Motagua ... some stakeholders are focused on catching the trash in the rivers before it can reach the ocean.

The landfill “was supposed to close 25 years ago,” she says, “but last November 1, they were granted another provisional five-year permit to keep dumping another 500,000 tons of incinerator ...

Residents are concerned about the oil spill’s more than 175,000 gallons of liquid waste and 11,276 cubic yards of solid waste that have been deposited.

OCEAN TOWNSHIP - While the Township Committee continues to assess the proposals it received to install solar panels on the Southern Ocean Landfill, a sign still hangs on the fence ...

The site for Oahu’s next municipal solid waste landfill will be announced in November, city officials say. ... and that’s how we created that big garbage patch” in the Pacific Ocean.