It’s not morally right to bury that much metal in the ground. It’s still recoverable, recyclable material,” says operator of ...

Landfills like the one in Putnam County are designed and built to handle toxic waste, they said.They also have processes in place to protect the surrounding environment. “When hazardous waste ...

Donley noted that similar hazardous waste landfills are located in more arid and remote locations in the southern U.S., while Wayne Disposal has 350,000 people living within a 10-mile radius.

Burying waste is not safe, particularly in the long term. Recent studies of sanitary landfills in Europe show concentric circles of increased cancer rates in areas near landfills.

Action News Investigates has learned that a hazardous waste landfill was hit with major fines for emitting noxious odors and ignoring the law. Then it got the state's blessing to expand.

Landfill Proposed for Hazardous Waste Cleanup List. By Jonathan Mummolo. September 20, 2007 at 1:00 a.m. EDT. A closed Loudoun County landfill that has for years been suspected of contaminating ...

When government inspectors arrived at the hazardous waste landfill here in 2023, they found themselves in a barren and alien landscape carved from western Pennsylvania’s green countryside.

CWM, a subsidiary of Waste Management, Inc., originally filed an application with the state in 2003 to open a new 43.5-acre landfill to hold more than 6 million tons of industrial and hazardous waste.