Mont Cuet, the island's only landfill site, is expected to be full by 2022.
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.
Tests by the Environment Agency (EA) have since established there was no contamination at the landfill site.
Almost 100 Lancashire residents have started legal proceedings against a firm operating a landfill site in Altham, Accrington.
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Developer FCC Environment proposed building a facility to turn vegetation into electricity on land at Sutton Courtenay landfill site.
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.
The committee also received briefings on the Local Government Finance Bill, the Cam Road landfill site, and the Better Regulation Strategy.
Farmers and residents have warned of a protest against the further burial of carcasses at the Penhesgyn landfill site on the island.
Connon Bridge landfill site, near Liskeard, is operated by SITA UK on behalf of Cornwall Council and is due to expire in 2014.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The decision follows a public inquiry in Edinburgh into the wheel-loss incident, which occurred as the HGV driver was heading from his home in Dunfermline to the Avondale landfill site off the M9.
Plans for the landfill site show that the boundary will be 30 metres from the nearest house and Gallaghers Estates, which owns the land, says it may have to review its plans if the project goes ahead.
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.
Campaigners have now submitted their own planning application to change the site from landfill to a nature reserve.
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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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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 dispute has not involved the company currently running the landfill as ownership of the site has changed hands since it began being used.
Today, a four-lane highway by bisects Walden Woods and there's a full landfill and a former gravel-mining site.
Rubbish from Wales and parts of England is buried at the site and a second separate landfill operates in nearby Ruabon.
Work to transform the site -- the largest landfill in Spain -- began in 2000 and was completed earlier this year.
Meanwhile, some victims' relatives sued the city over its decision to move 1.6 million tons of materials from the trade center site to the Fresh Kills landfill, saying the material might contain victims' ashes and should have been given a proper burial.
Other landfill sites in Wrexham include the Pen-y-Bont site in Newbridge and Gardden Road in Ruabon.
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