Waste is compacted during operations on the working face of the Winnebago County Landfill in Rockford, March 18, 2024. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune) “Consequently, a lack of complete ...

Just 14 miles from downtown Chicago sits Calumet Beach and Park. Steps away from the park is an old, toxic landfill in the area of the Illinois International Port District. The landfill opened in ...

When companies downsize, what happens to their office furniture and materials? Decommissioning is a complex process, but ...

CHICAGO | The potential reopening of a landfill at the Chicago-Dolton border along 138th Street has two Far South Side aldermen at odds with each other. Yet it also has many of the area's ...

In Chicago, one new facility is hoping that artificial ... plastic water bottle from streams of waste, diverting them from landfills. These robots use an "optical scanner" trained to spot aluminum ...

However, Harris believes now is not the time for East Chicago to turn part of the city into a landfill, given the ongoing soil contamination crisis from past lead manufacturing operations in the ...