Waste haulers in the county would bring garbage and recycling to the proposed facility for sorting and ship it out, likely to ...

Following the recent closure of the state’s only municipal garbage incinerator, Marion County will not send an additional 100 ...

Among those fined were a city in Lane County discharging sewage to a creek, a Gilliam County landfill that failed to properly treat hazardous waste, and a Portland fuel terminal that made changes ...

Elsewhere, landfill permit denials occurred in Virginia and Michigan, while a landfill odor lawsuit continues in Illinois, ...

In an important development for the sustainability movement, Oregon and Colorado are implementing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws ...

The move comes after Reworld Marion said it would stop accepting waste at the end of 2024 and burning will cease at the ...

The construction industry creates about 600 million tons of trash each year, more than twice the amount of everyday garbage ...

Clark County Public Health is celebrating the diversion of over 50,000 pounds of waste from landfills in 2024 through their ...

A California truck driver accused of crashing into a van on I-5 near Salem, killing seven farmworkers, is now on trial.

Nitrate pollution has worsened significantly in eastern Oregon over the past decade ... the Port of Morrow or local landfills, Sparrow said. The agency also plans to expand the groundwater well ...

According to the city’s 2023 Point in Time Count, overall homelessness in Portland increased by 65% from 2015 to 2023, with ...

America leads the world in producing more trash than it knows what do with — running out of landfills by 2036.