For nearly four decades, most of Marion County’s garbage has gone to an incinerator in Brooks to be burned. That ends in a few weeks. Reworld, the New Jersey-based company that now owns the ...

Black and Hispanic communities are often overburdened with air pollution and emissions from trash incinerators, chemical plants, and oil refineries that harm their health. MIAMI — When leaders of ...

Collier’s landfill, east of Great Wolf Lodge and north of Picayune Strand, receives daily loads that are spread and buried. Clay and synthetic liners prevent leaching. As waste decomposes, methane ...

Some Maryland leaders and sustainability advocates are pushing for legislation that would remove trash incineration from the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) and use the funds for ...

Stanislaus County’s Covanta plant, the last remaining garbage incinerator in California, will cease operations in December, marking the end of an era for waste management in the state. Jody Hayes, the ...

A trash-to-energy incinerator has received the backing of the Carroll County administration, which rejected the recommendation of an environmental advisory panel. The public works department called ...

The application to the Environment Agency requests dozens of new waste classifications to be added to the list of permitted waste, which currently consists of refuse derived fuel (RDF) from domestic, ...

Two companies are competing to build Miami-Dade a $2 billion garbage incinerator. Miami-Dade commissioners say they'll vote in January.

When leaders of Miami-Dade, Florida’s most populous county, met in September to pick a site for what could become the nation’s largest trash incinerator, so many people went to the government center ...