Senate Bill 726 has been introduced into the 83rd Oregon Legislative Assembly which would address municipal solid waste landfills. The Bill would require the owner or operator of a municipal solid ...

Macroeconomic trends, including cooling inflation and continued commodity headwinds, are expected to impact the industry.

Colorado, Oregon, Illinois, Nevada, New York, Vermont and Washington have new laws, including electronics and battery EPR and ...

A new waste-to-energy pilot plant in Arlington shows that there may still be jobs in waste, no matter how fancy the technology gets. Landfills have never been popular, and with recycling rates rising ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Deschutes County Solid Waste Department has expanded its household hazardous waste disposal options at Knott Landfill in Bend, giving residents the opportunity to drop off ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — Food is the largest component of the metro region’s garbage: about 18% of our overall disposed waste —more than any other material by far. Businesses are responsible for more than ...

Modern societies generate a great deal of trash, and even in the developed world the waste-handling system struggles to deal with it. Only a disappointing fraction of plastic waste is in fact recycled ...

Landfill owner Republic Services won't comply with two of the actions DEQ has asked it to take to address serious methane leaks.