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,...
Landfills are supposed to be the end of the line. But chemicals aren't staying buried. Some are seeping, leaking, and even wafting into the air, threatening ecosystems and public health alike. As landfills grow with rising global populations, so too...
As mountains of municipal solid waste continue to rise, something brews below. That something is landfill leachate, a potent cocktail of household waste streams quietly seeping into our ecosystems and threatening water safety across the globe. Leachate isn’t just dirty...
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is experiencing a renaissance, fueled by innovative strategies that are boosting methane yield, reducing waste, and transforming organic byproducts into renewable energy. Recent scientific advancements are helping operators reimagine the future of AD, from optimizing feedstock to...
