waste management
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Why Isn’t Landfill Mining More Popular?
Our garbage heaps are rich in metals and other materials, but landfill mining is rare.
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An Enormous Landfill Spontaneously Combusted in India
It’s hot enough in India to make one of Delhi’s biggest trash piles spontaneously combust. A fire began last Tuesday at the Bhalswa landfill, a massive site in northeast Delhi that lies along a canal that connects to the Yamuna River. The huge landfill, which takes mostly unsorted waste, is as tall as a 17-story…
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Could Someone Please Help the Biden Administration Store All This Nuclear Waste?
The federal government has restarted a search for towns that will volunteer to be temporary homes for thousands of tons of nuclear waste.
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Will We Ever Be Able to Clean Up All Our Trash?
We die and decompose, but a growing portion of our garbage lives on. Your great-grandfather’s bones have become organic matter in the soil, but the same cannot be said for the Mr. Goodbar wrapper he discarded 80 years ago today. Our landfills are poorly organised museums, robustly endowed and expanding by the second. Some, of…