On October 27, Sustainability Matters and Fairfax County officials will hold a ribbon-cutting on a new pollinator habitat project at the county’s I-66 Landfill and Transfer Station on West Ox Road.

An estimated 20 million metric tons of plastic litter are in landfills and the world's oceans. By 2050, production of plastic products is expected to reach 590 million metric tons, with only 18-20 ...

"Microbial solutions that will address plastic waste on a larger scale." Scientists discover insect with major appetite for plastic — here's how it could help clean up landfills first appeared ...

Insects are a sustainable food source because they require less water, land and feed than traditional livestock. Some, like black soldier fly larvae, can even break down food waste that would ...

Landfills received about 10.5 million tons of yard trimmings, ... insects and diseases, Krans said. The added nutrients mean you won't need to use as much fertilizer as usual, ...

Tyson, a major US producer of beef, pork and chicken, is betting on protein that comes from insects. ... animal fats, hides and inedible proteins, if not used or reduced, can end up in landfills.

The city transitioned from a landfill just west of the city to the North Valley Landfill in about 2017, ... It "may become breeding grounds for populations of insects and rodents," they wrote, ...

Rocks in Trader Joe's cookies. Insects in its broccoli-cheese soup. Pieces of plastic in Banquet frozen chicken strips. In recent weeks, U.S. consumers have seen high-profile food recalls for an ...

In landfill, the potential fertilizer is lost to be decomposed into methane and contaminated wastewater. Ideally, food waste should be separated out from other waste and processed like this.

Disease and ailments. A landfill in a public area in Central Gaza, shown in the video below, has become part of the grim reality for many Palestinians residing nearby.

However, insects are often an afterthought in the discussion of conservation issues related to wind energy infrastructure. For some time, scientists have been sounding the alarm on the decline of ...