landfill
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The growing garbage fire has warped a landfill hillside, which could potentially trigger and avalanche of garbage and leachate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
The Val Verde community is the closest and is located approximately 1,000 feet northwest of the developed area of the landfill, according to the lawsuit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
The 639-acre landfill opened in 1972 and stopped accepting waste on Jan. 1, 2025, according to Chiquita Canyon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Karen MacCormick from the company says waste incineration is a greener option than landfill because it can also generate electricity.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Anger flashed through me as I imagined a bunch of unopened letters from Marcus sitting in a landfill somewhere, covered in trash.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
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
Instead, it leaks, gushes or wafts from landfills, oil and gas equipment and manure pits at dairy operations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
That could help ease a shortage of equipment operators at landfills and other job sites struggling to fill positions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 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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