landfills /tags/landfills landfills en-US SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ä± Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:00:00 GMT Environmentalists back landfills over incinerators as trash piles up in Palm Beach County /environment/2025-12-09/environmentalists-back-landfills-over-incinerators-as-trash-piles-up-in-palm-beach-county Palm Beach County dismisses landfill option, moves forward with $1.5 billion incinerator. Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:00:00 GMT /environment/2025-12-09/environmentalists-back-landfills-over-incinerators-as-trash-piles-up-in-palm-beach-county Holly Baltz | Stet News Can worms, AI garbage sorters or a trash-ID app help solve Miami-Dade’s waste crisis? /environment/2025-09-12/can-worms-ai-garbage-sorters-or-a-trash-id-app-help-solve-miami-dades-waste-crisis Those three are just a few of the proposals companies have pitched to a county hoping to find new ways to reduce the steam of waste fastly filling landfills. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMT /environment/2025-09-12/can-worms-ai-garbage-sorters-or-a-trash-id-app-help-solve-miami-dades-waste-crisis Ashley Miznazi | Miami Herald Federal regulations fail to contain methane emissions from landfills, a new report concludes /environment/2023-05-18/federal-regulations-fail-to-contain-methane-emissions-from-landfills-a-new-report-concludes A leading source of U.S. climate pollution could be curbed with more gas-collection systems and better emissions monitoring, environmental advocates say. Thu, 18 May 2023 21:00:00 GMT /environment/2023-05-18/federal-regulations-fail-to-contain-methane-emissions-from-landfills-a-new-report-concludes Amy Green, Phil McKenna 'We're gonna have serious problems': Public officials look to solve South Florida's longer-term trash conundrum /environment/2023-03-01/were-gonna-have-serious-problems-public-officials-look-to-solve-south-floridas-longer-term-trash-conundrum Miami-Dade County Commissioner Rene Garcia tells SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ä± that waste management is not always top of mind for a lot of people. But the Covanta energy plant fire in Doral has pushed for a rethink of South Florida's relationship with trash — how much waste people produce and where to put our garbage for the long haul. Wed, 01 Mar 2023 17:07:51 GMT /environment/2023-03-01/were-gonna-have-serious-problems-public-officials-look-to-solve-south-floridas-longer-term-trash-conundrum Daniel Rivero, SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ä± News Scientists say landfills release more planet-warming methane than previously thought /news/2022-08-11/scientists-say-landfills-release-more-planet-warming-methane-than-previously-thought A study builds on research that shows landfills are the third-largest source of methane emissions globally, after oil and gas systems and agriculture. Thu, 11 Aug 2022 14:30:00 GMT /news/2022-08-11/scientists-say-landfills-release-more-planet-warming-methane-than-previously-thought The Associated Press She reclaims toxic waste dumps, and she just won a major landscape architecture award /2021-10-14/she-reclaims-toxic-waste-dumps-and-she-just-won-a-major-landscape-architecture-award Julie Bargmann, the first recipient of the Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, redesigns waste dumps, landfills, Superfund sites — places she calls "the gnarliest." Fri, 15 Oct 2021 11:05:25 GMT /2021-10-14/she-reclaims-toxic-waste-dumps-and-she-just-won-a-major-landscape-architecture-award Neda Ulaby Your Trash Is Emitting Methane In The Landfill. Here's Why It Matters For The Climate /news/npr-breaking-news/2021-07-13/your-trash-is-emitting-methane-in-the-landfill-heres-why-it-matters-for-the-climate Landfills are among the nation's largest sources of methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide. But accurately measuring methane is a major challenge to reducing it. Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:34:36 GMT /news/npr-breaking-news/2021-07-13/your-trash-is-emitting-methane-in-the-landfill-heres-why-it-matters-for-the-climate James Bruggers, Phil McKenna, Amy Green, Robert Benincasa