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 ...

“Landfills are a significant contributor to ... a University of Illinois Chicago emeritus professor and coauthor of the National Academy of Sciences report. “A combination of top-down and ...

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 ...

The kids from Corron Elementary School in Community Unit School District 303 have put together a recycling program that is keeping about 100 pounds of plastic from reaching landfills weekly in ...

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 ...

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

Brown studied Fashion Merchandising at Columbia College Chicago, where she learned about ... they couldn’t locate them because they were lost in landfills. “Buying less is the most efficient ...

about 42 miles north of Chicago, are 70 acres of empty land dotted with wooden posts bearing toxic gas monitors. This is Yeoman Creek Landfill, a former dumping ground for hazardous waste from ...

DOLTON, Ill. (WLS) -- Heavy rains over the weekend led to a landslide at a section of a landfill in south suburban Dolton Monday morning. The landslide took place at 138th Street and Cottage Grove ...