landfill
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Attorneys for Downtown LA Law Group said in court Thursday that the firm plans to drop out of litigation over the Chiquita Canyon landfill amid allegations of misconduct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
The company has said it will continue to manage the landfill, including addressing the smoldering underground fire “that is affecting the northwest corner of the landfill, as well as closure and post-closure activities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
The Glasgow Recycling and Renewable Energy Centre in Glasgow was shut down in April this year, with much of the waste being diverted to other incinerators or landfill.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
A rapid growth in the construction of energy-from-waste plants, which generate electricity by burning rubbish, has seen a shift away from landfill.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
He was fat, with a white beard that had turned yellow, kind of like Santa Claus, if Santa had been rolled out of bed and dragged through a landfill.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
Satellites and AI are also used to spot greenhouse gas emissions from individual facilities such as oil and gas sites, mines or landfills.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Carbon Mapper doesn’t have similar numbers for landfills because methods to calculate the impacts of repairs are still being developed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Food waste has been hauled to at least four landfills, including Simi Valley Landfill and Recycling Center in Ventura County and El Sobrante Landfill in Riverside County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
And California recently enacted a law requiring retailers to manage how clothing waste is disposed of, in a bid to keep clothes from further bloating landfills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
During this period, plastic increasingly filled landfills and oceans while its production—up to 8 million tons annually by 2020—contributed to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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