At Stony Brook University, researchers are developing an AI-assisted system to analyze and characterize contaminated items in ...

A broken plastic chair from a household, used for many years and eventually discarded, may once have been sold ...

The review process to replace the Countryside landfill in Grayslake with a waste transfer station is set to begin. Waste Management of Illinois, which has operated Countryside for more than 30 years, ...

Northwestern Illinois leads the state in the space for trash, but one of our largest landfills won't last forever.

Leftover food comes and goes easily. Wilted salad left from a potluck, daily coffee grounds, the moldy butt of a loaf of bread, slick potato peels from Thanksgiving prep—if you’re like most people in ...