Landfill expenses would top $500 million a year without a new incinerator. But debt payments on a $1.8 billion incinerator get pricey, too.

Typically, a garbage truck driver will compress the truck's load if fire is seen, starving the flames of oxygen and often ...

Burning plastic as fuel for cooking and heating releases toxic chemicals into the air and contaminates food. Yet this is ...

More than 10,000 homes and other structures were consumed by flames, along with thousands of cars and other vehicles.

Michigan winter weather could take a trip to the former Velsicol Chemical Co. Burn Pit near Hidden Oaks Golf Course in St.

Later that day, another fire was reported at 333 SE Mizner Blvd. A large sum of trash was found burning in an open waste disposal area, causing moderate damage to the eastern side of a commercial ...

Derek McAllister, 61, admitted breaching the Environmental Protection Act involving the storage and burning of cars, fridges, rubber tyres, household and building waste and asbestos sheeting.

A second man, John McKenzie, 27, of Aberdeen, was fined £240 at a previous hearing and given a nine-month community payback order for assisting in the illegal burning of waste materials.

Waste crime includes illegal waste burning, unauthorised waste shipping, and operating unlawful waste sites, all of which pose serious risks to the packaging sector. The Environment Agency estimates ...

A PIT full of burning industrial waste found at a Macedon Ranges property last year has resulted in a $1976 fine. Shortly before 10pm on November 12, seven CFA units from Woodend, Bolinda, Riddells ...

Q. Can I use a burn pit or burn trash when there is a burn ban in my county? A. A burn ban does not prohibit the following: supervised, controlled burn for which a permit has been issued by the ...