Most organic household waste ends up in landfills, where it generates methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Composting food and garden waste instead of sending it to landfills can significantly reduce ...

The disparity is wider for landfills that collect methane as part of their operations. Landfills don't measure the exact amounts of methane they are losing, but rather estimate how efficient their ...

When Melinda Sims first started LoCI Controls, a company that provides landfills with real-time data on methane collection, she wasn’t trying to address climate change. It was 2012, and methane — a ...

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Scientist Gabrielle Petron looks out into the world and sees numbers. In her work for the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Petron plots data on her computer like most ...

WAREHAM, Mass., Feb. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- LoCI Controls, the leader in real-time monitoring and control technology for optimizing landfill methane capture, today announced results from its methane ...

May 2—ENID, Ok. — The city is set to approve a private agreement to install a new methane collection system at Enid's landfill and then sell the leftover gas. City commissioners will vote on a 25-year ...

Few waste-to-energy (WTE) plants have been completed in the U.S. since the mid 1990s, but the story is different around the world, where WTE technology is seen as a suitable solution to municipal ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is underestimating methane emissions from landfills, urban areas and U.S. states, according to a new study. The researchers combined 2019 satellite ...

A single flip-flop. An empty Chick-fil-A sandwich bag. A mattress. A sneaker, navy with a white sole. A little orange bouncy ball. Garbage is strewn among thigh-high drifts of dirt, used to bury the ...