Waste Management, the nation’s largest waste hauler, has a big idea: Invest heavily in extracting natural gas from landfills. Natural gas has a lower “carbon footprint” than other fossil fuels, and Waste Management (WM) has a lot of landfills. Landfills emit methane, a greenhouse gas. But it can be captured and used or sold as…
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Is Recycling Worth It? Let’s At Least Address the Question
The Raleigh News & Observer has done an outstanding public service with its article titled “Is Recycling Worth It? We Dove into Recycling in Raleigh and This Is What We Learned.” It explains in detail what happens to goods that are put into the curbside recycling bin and suggests ways the public can recycle difficult…
An Arkansas City Dumped Recyclables into a Landfill—and Pretended It Didn’t
A judge has ordered the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas, to pay nearly $750,000 in citizen restitution for dumping into a landfill 95 percent of the materials that residents thought would be recycled. The city deceived its residents, the decision said, by continuing to accept waste from recycling bins, using trucks that advertised themselves as…