An engineer explains landfill science and why landfills are surprisingly a low-impact way of dealing with our garbage.

We rarely think about what happens to our garbage after it goes into the nearest waste receptacle. Whether it’s a piece of paper, a worn-out pair of flip flops, or leftovers from the back of your ...

The United States generates 254 million tons of trash every year; without regular removal we’d all be drowning in garbage. Doing that picking up is both dirty and dangerous. According to the U.S.

Some of the things we throw away can take an eternity to decompose. While food scraps and organic matter are the quickest to decompose, man-made materials like plastic, Styrofoam, and glass will take ...

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