Trim estimates that nearly 500-1,100 pounds of cannabis is dumped into landfills each week during the growing season in Washington state (based on approximately 1,000 licensed growers).

According to one estimate, sorting and treating organics separately from other trash can reduce landfill methane emissions by 62%. Washington state recognized this strategy in a law passed last ...

According to one estimate, sorting and treating organics separately from other trash can reduce landfill methane emissions by 62 percent. Washington state recognized this strategy in a law passed ...

In 2022, the Washington Legislature directed Ecology to improve methane monitoring and capture at the state’s municipal solid waste landfills. Typically, garbage and other waste sit in a ...

The Department of Energy is ready to begin a three-year construction project critical to the environmental cleanup of the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington. The huge, lined landfill in ...

A Washington bill that could add a new level of approval to landfill permits and give local ... beginning in 2026. The state legislature sent HB 1154 to Gov. Bob Ferguson on April 23.

A competitive grant program from the Washington Department of Ecology will fund projects at 13 landfills across the state, including two in Yakima County, to better measure and contain methane ...

WASHINGTON - The state is intensifying efforts to cut greenhouse ... has awarded nearly $10 million for methane reduction at 13 landfills statewide. Methane is commonly produced when food and ...

The Washington state Department of Ecology recently put out new rules to regulate methane emissions from landfills. Meanwhile, Oregon has had methane rules in place since 2021 and has been ...