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Located in Whittier, California and owned by the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (the Districts), Puente Hills Landfill is a major part of the long-term integrated waste management system of Los Angeles County.

Around the world thousands of historic landfill sites are silently producing millions of tonnes of methane gas, which either makes its way into the atmosphere where it adds to the cocktail of greenhouse gases potentially heating the planet, or it is flared, and the energy it contains is wasted.

Organic waste collections, specifically the collection of segregated food waste, remain top of the municipal waste management agenda across the UK, both in terms of government policy and financial support and in terms of the media spotlight.

Where waste collection services are seen as part of a local government function, there will be someone telling the operations department that the carbon footprint of the fleet must be reduced.

Back in 2003 JCB introduced the first 'Wastemaster' machines.

The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Recast has been formally approved by the European Parliament, but there are still a few stages for it to go through before it enters into national law.

Due to the change of emphasis from landfilling to waste treatment, which is implicated by the Landfill Directive, more and more waste is undergoing treatment processes.

Ben Messenger looks at an award winning technology developed by a small firm in Manchester, England that combines heat and chemistry to extract lead and clean glass to recycle leaded CRT glass.

In the past Waste to Energy (WtE) development has been restricted in Poland.

Effective management of municipal solid waste (MSW) is one of the greatest challenges facing local governments today.

Babcock & Wilcox Vølund is one of the world's leading suppliers of equipment and technologies designed to convert household waste and bio-fuels into thermal energy.