An engineer explains landfill science and why landfills are surprisingly a low-impact way of dealing with our garbage.

Take a deeper look into how modern landfills actually work—and why they’re far more complex than piles of waste. Beneath the surface lies a network of engineering systems designed to manage gases, ...

Ami investigates how landfills break down waste and how we can rethink what we throw away. What happens to our trash after it’s thrown away? Ami explores how landfills break down waste and how organic ...

Did you know methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide? Uncaptured methane is 84 times more harmful than carbon dioxide, making it a significant driver of climate change. Landfills ...

Landfills’ work faces, the areas where fresh waste is dumped, are responsible for a huge share of methane emissions in US landfills, yet work face emissions have largely gone uncounted by traditional ...

Editor’s note: The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission on Dec. 18 approved new regulations to reduce methane emissions from landfills in Colorado. Denver and WM, one of the nation’s largest waste ...