What if the key to slashing your city’s utility bills and carbon footprint was hiding in the sewers? That’s exactly what Grants Pass, Oregon has uncovered. They are turning wastewater into watts with a new biogas-powered boiler system that’s saving...
We don’t usually think of sewage as a climate solution, but in Richmond, B.C., it’s powering homes and fighting emissions. At the Lulu Island Wastewater Treatment Plant, engineers and microbiologists have created a cutting-edge system that turns human waste into...
What’s brewing beneath Chattanooga? The city is gearing up to host the world’s largest membrane-aerated biofilm reactor (MABR), a groundbreaking leap in wastewater treatment and biogas recovery that puts Tennessee on the global clean energy map. Led by Archer Western...
What used to be flared off as waste is now powering a city. Duluth’s newly upgraded wastewater treatment plant, Resource Renew, is turning sewage into savings by capturing and converting biogas into clean electricity, marking a major leap in the...
When it comes to protecting our environment, what happens under the landfill is just as important as what goes in it. Forward-thinking landfill operators are proving that smart containment strategies can keep leachate locked down for good. Today’s best defense?...
Polk County, Florida, which used to spend $2.5 million annually in leachate hauling fees, is now being transformed into a showcase of environmental innovation. Thanks to a groundbreaking collaboration with the University of Florida, Polk unveiled a Constructed Wetlands Leachate...
What happens when rain falls on mountains of trash? It creates leachate, one of the most pressing, complex, and poorly understood environmental threats hiding in plain sight. Today, however, a powerful tool is changing the game: machine learning. Landfill leachate...
Would you swim in a creek laced with arsenic, radioactive sediment, and lead? Many Pennsylvanians don’t have a choice. Across western Pennsylvania, communities are raising red flags about the growing threat of leachate—a toxic brew of chemicals formed when rainwater...
It’s not just garbage piling up in our landfills, it’s a public health crisis trickling into your drinking water and floating through the air you breathe. Across the U.S., our water systems are laced with a toxic stew of chemicals,...
