Every day, an average American generates nearly five pounds of waste: Food, paper, plastic, metal, textiles and others. After the truck picks up our trash bags, we usually don’t think about where all ...

PONTIAC - Residents got a better look at how the Livingston Landfill works Tuesday, thanks to a sort of science fair sponsored by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. Experts were available ...

Dave Miller: This is Think Out Loud on OPB. I’m Dave Miller. We talk a lot about CO2 as a greenhouse gas and for good reason. Billions of metric tons of it go into the atmosphere every year, creating ...

The Montezuma County Landfill operates under a financial structure known as an “enterprise” operation, a model designed to ...