Here’s a compelling reason to start composting: your municipal solid waste is producing airborne antibiotic-resistance genes. Duhn duhn duhhhhn. But actually, this news is quite frightening. According ...

A trash incinerator that helped bankrupt Harrisburg has prompted two Pennsylvania senators to roll out a package of bills that would better evaluate municipal investments. Pennsylvania Sens. Rob ...

Legacy of contamination could still live on in the soil of parks, playgrounds and other urban spaces built on former municipal incinerator sites DURHAM, N.C. – For much of the last century, many ...

New York, December 1, 2020 -- The Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School has compiled state-specific reports for the five states with the highest number of municipal solid waste ...

Municipal solid waste is trash -- such as plastic, food scraps and lawn clippings -- that goes into garbage bins and doesn't get recycled. Most of this waste is buried in landfills or is incinerated.

Objectives—Increased concentrations of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) in pooled blood samples from workers at municipal waste incinerators have ...

Detroit — For the long-suffering neighbors of the massive incinerator that sits near the interchange of Interstates 75 and 94, some relief from the bothersome odors the plant produces may be on the ...

The Indianapolis Board of Public Works voted narrowly Wednesday to continue sending the bulk of Marion County’s waste to an incinerator that burns trash to create steam energy through 2035. The ...