Plans for a landfill site near a new Bedfordshire settlement could halt further development, residents fear.
Sellafield nuclear firm has pleaded guilty to sending bags of low-level radioactive waste to a landfill site.
Almost 100 Lancashire residents have started legal proceedings against a firm operating a landfill site in Altham, Accrington.
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Environmental campaigners have lost a legal battle to limit the life-span of a landfill site near their homes in Wrexham.
And, Andreas Gursky has captured an extraordinary image of an ocean of rubbish at a landfill site in Mexico City.
In September 2009, it said moving refuse from Skye to a landfill site near Falkirk resulted in one of the costliest disposals in Scotland.
Paul Dainton, who is campaigning against a landfill site in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, says his efforts are constantly frustrated by an apparent reluctance to release information.
Household and commercial rubbish is currently being loaded into 40ft containers every week and put on the boat to Larne from where it is transported to a landfill site.
According to Alex Kinghorn, the council's chief environmental health officer, the tender, which was signed last November, was based on the understanding that the majority of their waste would go to a landfill site in the Ballyclare area.
On a patch of wasteland by a vast landfill site, the bodies of dozens of murdered women have been dumped over the past two years alone.
However, Mr Kinghorn said problems arose with the Tyrone firm's arrangements at Ballyclare and also with a secondary disposal site a Cookstown landfill.
The rubbish is being taken out of Ballymena because their own landfill site is nearly full and the government has put a freeze on the council developing another landfill site.
Today, a four-lane highway by bisects Walden Woods and there's a full landfill and a former gravel-mining site.
Levels of landfill gas at a site that residents say is so smelly it keeps them up at night do not pose an immediate risk to human health, the Environment Agency (EA) says.
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Campaigners have now submitted their own planning application to change the site from landfill to a nature reserve.
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Rubbish from Wales and parts of England is buried at the site and a second separate landfill operates in nearby Ruabon.
Farmers and residents have warned of a protest against the further burial of carcasses at the Penhesgyn landfill site on the island.
Developer FCC Environment proposed building a facility to turn vegetation into electricity on land at Sutton Courtenay landfill site.
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