Regulations surrounding landfills are unlikely to be affected by Thursday’s “endangerment finding” rollback. But a warming climate brings broader dangers for the industry and its workers.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection recently added textiles and mattresses to the list of materials banned from waste disposal and further lowered the threshold on banned ...

California regulators are recommending the state weaken its hazardous waste disposal rules in a bid to dump contaminated soil at some municipal landfills within the state. State officials say revising ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A large garbage container designated for collecting dead marine life from the Red Tide bacteria, is seen in the Pass-A-Grille ...

Malaysia says it is no longer accepting plastic waste from a handful of nations, including the U.S., that didn’t ratify the Basel Convention. Malaysia emerged as a major destination for waste from the ...

Environmental chemists and waste‑management engineers are drawing new attention to an old form of litter: cigarette filters made from cellulose acetate. Recent peer‑reviewed work in ...

A Philadelphia environmental group has filed an appeal to block a proposed $1.1 billion “advanced” plastics recycling plant in rural Pennsylvania after the administration of Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, ...

Casella Waste System’s Bethlehem landfill. This story was originally produced by the New Hampshire Bulletin, an independent local newsroom that allows NHPR and other outlets to republish its reporting ...

The Supreme Court mandated pan-India implementation of Solid Waste Management Rules from April 1 to combat pollution from ...