Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An engineer explains the surprisingly complex science that helps keep trash in landfills. It’s not fun to think about landfills.

APPLETON, Wisconsin (WGBA) — Separating your trash from your recyclables should be easy, but what happens when a plastic bottle ends up in the wrong bin? Fortunately, there’s a new tool being used in ...

Landfills’ work faces, the areas where fresh waste is dumped, are responsible for a huge share of methane emissions in US landfills, yet work face emissions have largely gone uncounted by traditional ...