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For years, unrecycled plastic bottles have been dumped in landfills. Now, thanks to new research from UBC Okanagan, those bottles may have a second life in that landfill -- stabilizing its earth walls. Used plastic bottles and textiles pose…

Every week, Antonio Brown provides the football world with a smoke signal update that reminds us that he’s an agent of chaos. That smoke signal is usually indicative of a fire. Since March, Brown has been running a semi-professional…

CNN  —  Authorities in Canada believe the remains of two indigenous women who died at the hands of an alleged serial killer are likely in a landfill, but police have decided…

In 2013, Welsh IT engineer James Howells made the decision to do a bit of housecleaning — an innocuous choice that would ultimately cost him hundreds of millions of dollars. While clearing out some junk from his home, Howells, 37,…

Firefighters struggled to douse a fire at the Bhalswa landfill site in north Delhi for the fourth straight day on Friday. A massive fire broke out at the Bhalswa landfill site on Tuesday evening. Several videos showed the blaze…

NEW YORK: For some, the hill represents New York's resilience; for others it's a gaping wound. Beneath it lies debris, mixed with human remains, from the 9/11 attacks. The site at Fresh Kills on Staten Island was the largest open-air dump…

It’s a Saturday afternoon in Jardim Colombo, a favela southwest of São Paulo, and residents have gathered in Fazendinhando Park for a community cleanup event. Volunteers in bright pink T-shirts swirl around the hillside, sweeping pathways,…

Each year, humans across the globe produce billions of tons of solid waste. Roughly 70% of this refuse ends up deposited in landfills, where it slowly decays. Yet, what may seem an inert accumulation of useless debris, is in reality, a…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain University at Buffalo researchers have published a study quantifying how a series of regulations limiting…

The blaze broke out Monday at the Ghazipur landfill east of New Delhi, according to the city's fire services director, Atul Garg. The cause has not been established, but fires can be triggered by combustible gases from disintegrating…