This interactive map shows all of the landfills in Upstate NY that are currently permitted to take municipal solid waste.
Data Source: Landfill - Solid Waste Map, NYS DEC. https://data.ny.gov/Energy-Environment/Landfill-Solid-Waste-Management-Facilities-Map/afg5-7i6u
Many of us take our garbage and toss it in a garbage can. We somehow want to deny it's existence. That trash can goes out to the curb and a big automated trash machine takes it away to the landfill, far from our own site. Or maybe if you live in the country, you know a little bit a more about trash.
You've probably burn it yourself, smelled all those toxins burn, and watched it flash up into flame. But have you sat and watched it smolder for those countless hours as those man made products are destroyed? All that hard work being consumed by flame and being reduced to ash just so you can continue to consume precious resources.
Taken on Wednesday December 27, 2006 at Trash.
This interactive map shows the location of active landfills in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Data Source: Municipal Waste Operations 2018 - Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. http://www.pasda.psu.edu/uci/DataSummary.aspx?dataset=281
NEW YORK — Mountains of trash are getting steeper as the country’s largest city inches away from its ambitious goal of nearly zeroing out residential waste by 2030, emblematic of the nation’s struggles with more garbage and limited recycling options.
City Hall cut street sweeping in half during the Covid-19 pandemic. Residents are recycling at their lowest level since 2015. Composting food scraps — which comprise one-third of household waste — is becoming harder as the program has been a target of budget cuts. And reforms to the private-sector industry that collects commercial waste have been delayed once again.
PITTSFIELD — Workers at a Pittsfield waste-to-energy facility risked breathing in smoke containing arsenic, cadmium and lead, the federal government says, a finding that confirms other accounts of hazards at the bankrupt plant.
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered Community Eco Power LLC, of Pittsfield, to respond by April 4 to violations it lodged Feb. 15 against the Hubbard Avenue plant, when it imposed $26,107 in penalties