UTA civil engineer's book illustrates the power of recycled plastic in shoring up roads
Plastics make up a large percentage of municipal solid waste that inhabit landfills.
Environment
May 19, 2017
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News tagged with landfills
As climate change brings more natural disasters, debris piles up—increasing health risks
When Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans in the summer of 2005, many residents in Versailles, a Vietnamese-American community in the east of the city, faced disaster for the second time.
Environment
Mar 22, 2022
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Satellites detect large methane emissions from Madrid landfills
High-resolution satellites have detected substantial quantities of methane leaking from adjacent landfill sites close to the center of Madrid, Spain. Using data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission combined with GHGSat's ...
Environment
Nov 10, 2021
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Researchers ID microbe responsible for methane from landfills
Researchers have long known that landfills produce methane, but had a hard time figuring out why – since landfills do not start out as a friendly environment for the organisms that produce methane. New research from ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 6, 2011
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Storks give up migrating to live on landfill in Spain
At a sprawling landfill near Madrid, hundreds of white storks dodge garbage trucks as they look for scraps of food among the mountains of multicoloured garbage bags.
Environment
Jul 22, 2022
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In 27 states, don't call your old computer 'trash'
(AP) -- Get a new flat-screen TV for Christmas and wondering what to do with the old console? Finally replacing that turntable with an MP3 player? Just upgrading your Mac? Whatever it is, you'd better check your state's ...
Other
Jan 4, 2011
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Russia breaks 'Zero Waste' Olympic pledge
Trucks rumble to the edge of a gigantic pit filled with spray cans, tires and foam sheets and dump a stream of concrete slabs that send up a cloud of limestone dust. Other trucks pile clay on top and a bulldozer mixes everything ...
Environment
Oct 29, 2013
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Environmental group measures methane seeps in the Arctic
(Phys.org) -- A team of researchers, led by Katey Walter Anthony, of the University of Alaska, has been studying and mapping so-called seeps, holes in lake ice near the edges of glaciers where methane is bubbling up from ...
How to make a profit from rotting garbage
Landfills can make a profit from all their rotting waste and a new patent explains exactly how to make the most out of the stinky garbage sites.
Other
Mar 31, 2015
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Biotechnology researchers turn to landfill sites
Far from being a load of rubbish, landfill sites should be considered one of the great untapped resources in the search for new enzymes for biotechnology, and could fuel more efficient biofuel production.
Biotechnology
Aug 22, 2017
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