An engineer explains landfill science and why landfills are surprisingly a low-impact way of dealing with our garbage.

Take a deeper look into how modern landfills actually work—and why they’re far more complex than piles of waste. Beneath the surface lies a network of engineering systems designed to manage gases, ...

Ami investigates how landfills break down waste and how we can rethink what we throw away. What happens to our trash after it’s thrown away? Ami explores how landfills break down waste and how organic ...

Landfills’ work faces, the areas where fresh waste is dumped, are responsible for a huge share of methane emissions in US landfills, yet work face emissions have largely gone uncounted by traditional ...