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The agency gets the images within 48 hours, then sends out notices to landfill and oil and gas operators when methane is seen escaping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Caterpillar’s newest landfill machinery doesn’t need a human in the operator’s cab.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

She acknowledged a need for "sufficient strategic landfill capacity" to be available during the transition process while some materials cannot yet be recycled or reused.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Landfill capacity in Scotland has been shrinking as operators wind down their operations ahead of a forthcoming ban on sending black bag waste to landfill sites.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Our school has three bins for waste—one for compost, one for recycling, and one for landfill trash—so when I throw it away, I separate it.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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

One estimate suggests that 11 million tons of REEs trapped in U.S. coal ash landfills is worth $8.4 billion -- nearly eight times the nation's current raw domestic reserves.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 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