Comal County Landfill

Why Does My Kitchen Sink Smell?

You walk into your house to discover a lingering, unpleasant scent. You take out the garbage, check the refrigerator for expired food, spray some deodorant...but the smell is still there. You search everywhere to discover the source of the stench, only to be taken aback when you realize it's your kitchen sink! Fortunately, you are not doomed to a smelly food preparation area.

Garbage Disposal Tips for the Holidays

By now, you’ve probably heard that your garbage disposal needs a bit of TLC, especially around the holiday season. Between your Christmas di...

How to Protect Your Kitchen Sink Drain and Garbage Disposal

Your kitchen sink and garbage disposal get a lot of use... but are you using them wisely?

What Can and Cannot Go Into My Dumpster

Disposing of home or commercial waste? Renting a dumpster is a great solution, but did you know there is a limit to what material you can put in a dumpster?

What Not to Use Your Dumpster For

While dumpsters can be used for multiple waste and recycling projects, whether big or small, there are certain things for which a dumpster cannot be used. Most of the things for which dumpsters cannot be used pertain to any sort of toxic or hazardous waste. The types of waste listed below cannot be put into dumpsters as waste. There are alternate ways to dispose of those types of wasteWhat Cannot Go Into a Roll-Off DumpsterElectronicsThis includes mainly all televisions, radios,…

What Dumpster Size Do You Need?

Compare dimensions and total volume of the most common roll off dumpster sizes to find the right dumpster for any project at home or on your work site.

The Polite House: What Can I Do About My Neighbors’ Trash Cans?

If you’re tired of staring at unsightly garbage way before pickup day, it’s time to have some tough conversations

IDEM permit would let landfill grow upwards

GOSHEN — The Elkhart County Landfill is seeking a state permit that would allow a 7.4 million-ton increase to capacity.

Power To Save: Tredegar Corporation Goes Landfill-free

NORWEGIAN TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- As you finish your lunch at work, you probably end up going to the trash can to throw something away. That's not the case at one plastic film manufacturing plant in Schuylkill County. Employees there are proud to be landfill-free.It's a familiar sound in lunchrooms everywhere, but these aren't trash bins. These bins are for different types of recycled materials that employees at Tredegar Corporation near Pottsville sort themselves.

Solid waste rate up as landfill nears capacity

BLOOMINGTON — McLean County residents generated much more solid waste in 2014, filling up a landfill that's less than two years from capacity.

The zero-waste movement is coming for your garbage

Not wasting away: Brewer goes landfill free

More than five years after it set out to reduce waste at its breweries, MillerCoors said its breweries do not use landfills.

Tactics for Battling Pesky Landfill Odors

Landfill operators must tailor their odor control efforts based on how waste is deposited.

Ask Us: "Clean" recyclables do not go to the landfill

Q: Please inform me if the "recyclables" the city picks up are truly recycled. I heard from friends living near the Blue Earth County Recycling Center that very little if

Scrappers: 15 Photos of Life on a Landfill

Around the world, thousands of people work as scrappers in landfills. These photos show you what life is like for them - and the humanity of these people.

Keep Mattresses out of the Landfill

Mattresses pose a serious problem when it comes to disposal. These large household products take up more than their fair share of space in landfills because they’re difficult to compact, clog machinery, and create large soft spaces that can turn into sinkholes after filling. The problem of mattress disposal can be confronted from two sides. The first is to recycle old mattresses, reusing their components to…

Wasteland: The future of trash in a post landfill world

Throwing something away doesn’t make it gone for good, because our trash is never really gone, just relocated. This is Wasteland, a deep dive into what we throw out and how it affects what's next. In this episode, we peel back the layers of the landfill and find out what waste management really means.