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

The largest landfill in the world can’t be found on land at all — but in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The so-called “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” consists of millions of pounds of trash, mostly ...

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.

With the Central Maui Landfill’s limited capacity expanding and 400,000 tons of Lahaina fire debris on its way, a company is ...

Too much trash is being dumped at the landfill in Wicomico County ... Corry said the problem took center stage when two trash trucks dropped off trash from Ocean Pines, Ocean City and Berlin. "Both ...

OCEAN TOWNSHIP - The township received three proposals by Monday's deadline for its project to install solar panels on the capped Southern Ocean Landfill, each of which would provide substantial ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The Plastic Ocean Project (POP) visited the New Hanover County Landfill to measure the trees they planted five years ago. The location used to be an uncapped landfill site ...

Chiquita Canyon Landfill received about 34% of all the in-county solid waste disposal in 2023, equaling about 2.1 million tons, L.A. County Public Works reported.