landfill fire occurs when waste disposed of in a landfill ignites and spreads. Two types of landfills fires are generally recognized – surface fires and...

extreme fire hazard. A major fire broke out at the landfill site on 21 April 2024; the fire rapidly spread, engulfing several areas of the landfill. Toxic...

precautionary law in 1956 to regulate landfill use in strip mines, as landfills were known to cause destructive mine fires. The law required a permit and regular...

Landfill gas is a mix of different gases created by the action of microorganisms within a landfill as they decompose organic waste, including for example...

The Glen Lily Landfill is an inactive municipal solid waste landfill located in unincorporated Warren County, Kentucky northwest of the city of Bowling...

West Lake Landfill is a closed, unlined mixed-waste landfill located in Bridgeton, Missouri. It was featured in the 2015 documentaries The First Secret...

The Freeway Fire started first shortly after 9 am with the Landfill Fire igniting approximately 2 hours later. These two separate fires merged a day...

The Delta landfill is a landfill south of Vancouver B.C. Vancouver has owned and operated the Vancouver Landfill in Delta since 1966. It's now used by...

A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials. It is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of waste...

stltoday.com. Retrieved 2019-03-18. Hsieh, Steven (2013-05-10). "St. Louis Landfill Fire Nears Nuclear Waste: Where's the Government?". Rolling Stone. Retrieved...

outskirts of Winnipeg. The landfill caught fire in 2012. In 2013, the City of Winnipeg began capturing methane from the landfill originally using 42 gas...

High-level radioactive waste management History of waste management Landfill fire Sewage regulation and administration Upcycling Waste hierarchy Waste...

Juniper Ridge Landfill (JRL) is a landfill owned by the state of Maine and operated by Casella Waste Systems. It is located in West Old Town, Maine, in...

May 26, 2012, a fire started in the ground tire bedding material at the Iowa City Landfill, involving at least 7.5 acres of landfill. It was finally extinguished...

Bhalswa landfill is an overfilled landfill waste dumping site located in Delhi, India; it is over 60 metres (200 ft) high. The site opened in 1994 and...

organic aromatic compounds in soils affected by an uncontrolled tire landfill fire through the use of comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-time-of-flight...

number of fires since around 2013, exposing local residents to toxic fumes. The site was a gravel pit in the 1960s, and subsequently used for landfill from...

The Toyon Canyon Landfill is located within Griffith Park in the Los Feliz hillside neighborhood of greater Hollywood in central Los Angeles, California...

it has passed through. Leachate from a landfill varies widely in composition depending on the age of the landfill and the type of waste that it contains...

increasing PVC concentrations. According to the U.S. EPA dioxin inventory, landfill fires are likely to represent an even larger source of dioxin to the environment...

subterranean fire. Another theory proposes that the Bast Colliery fire of 1932 was never fully extinguished, and that fire reached the landfill area by 1962;...

City, St Andrew, Jamaica is a landfill site on the outskirts of Kingston. In March 15, it was the site of a major fire, starting on 11 March. The poor...

States, landfills are regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the states' environmental agencies. Municipal solid waste landfills (MSWLF)...

extinguished the landfill fires, capped the landfill, and installed a gas venting system to prevent the buildup of gas within the landfill. The Remedial...

that harmless, since Vinča is not a managed landfill but rather a plain, unregulated dump. He said that the fire probably started years ago at the much deeper...

5976389 Rumpke Sanitary Landfill, more colloquially known as Mount Rumpke or Rumpke Mountain, is one of the largest landfills in the United States located...

Brahmapuram landfill is an overfilled waste dumping site located in the Indian city of Kochi, Kerala. The Brahmapuram Solid Waste plant located here is...

municipal solid waste may be sent to a landfill, while used motor oil is deemed hazardous and cannot be dumped in landfills, but rather is subject to more stringent...

The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871. The fire killed approximately 300 people...

waste is gathered. Some materials that may not be accepted at regular landfills are ammunition, commercially generated waste, explosives/shock sensitive...