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May 17, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple
At Your Service?
Austin's Private Landfills
"...building its own facility. Besides, at a time when landfills are in short supply elsewhere, Austin holds the dubious..."
July 5, 1996 News Feature
Bill Keeps TVs Out of Texas Landfills
Don't put your television set in the garbage
"...millions of old TVs on their way to Texas landfills, today the Legislature took an important step toward stopping..."
June 5, 2009 News Feature by Lee Nichols
Zero Waste = No New Landfills
"...is hard. It requires money and sometimes unpopular legislation. Landfills are easy, particularly ones that are out of the..."
Feb. 16, 2008 Postmarks
Landfills Toss Legal Trash
Nov. 29, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple
Talking Trash
A huge garbage dump in northeast Travis County causes a stink with its neighbors.
"...near mountains of municipal waste deposited in three adjacent landfills, located between U.S. 290 East and Blue Goose and..."
May 17, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple
Waste Not
Local groups work to "rescue" food from loss and landfills
"...of the fridge. Much of it ends up in landfills; EPA numbers show that about a third of what..."
Feb. 20, 2015 News Feature by Robyn Ross
Smell of Victory Eludes Northeast Landfill Neighbors
Northeast Travis County residents decry slow pace of enforcement, regulation of their neighbor landfills
"...to anyone who would listen, neighbors of two regional landfills in northeast Travis Co. say their neighborhoods still stink..."
Nov. 29, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple
Trash of the Titans Offends Neighbors, City Board
Neighbors rack up more complaints about Northeast landfills -- and the city Environmental Board joins the fray.
"...birds that used to hang out around the two landfills in northeast Travis County, scavenging for food. Last spring,..."
Dec. 13, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple
Trash Talk
New rules for state garbage
"...Rules Matter: Why Stronger Rules Are Needed for Super-Sized Landfills to Stop the Trashing of Texas" argues that Texas'..."
Feb. 3, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola
Commissioners Court Gets Trashy
Commissioner Davis fights further landfill expansion in eastern Travis County
"...of its solid waste facility siting ordinance to include landfills. The expectation was that the new siting ordinance amendments..."
Oct. 21, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola
Naked City
Garbage in, Garbage out -- in Court
"...Travis Co. residents have filed suit against the two landfills in their midst, located off U.S. 290 East and..."
July 18, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple
Austin’s Least-Loved Landfill May Be Poised to Grow Again
The other ACL: The Austin Community Landfill
"...middle-class area of town next to two other, now-closed landfills – Sunset Farms, recently purchased from BFI by Republic..."
Jan. 18, 2019 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader
Can Austin Waste Not?
City vows to cut landfill-bound garbage to zero
"...(and after we've helpfully crammed tons of it into landfills and spread layers of it everywhere else), we humans..."
Jan. 18, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola
Trashing the Trash Rules
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality recently adopted the most significant rewrite of the state's garbage rules in a decade
"...FEMA maps with respect to finding sites for new landfills, and a requirement that landfill expansions at older sites..."
March 24, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola
Naked City
When Smells Become Odors
"...on Environmental Quality -- the state agency that regulates landfills -- to get a headache or, worse yet, throw..."
May 9, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple
Naked City
Davis vs. the Dumps
"...pass what would be Travis County's first ordinance regulating landfills in unincorporated areas of the county. It goes without..."
Nov. 2, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith
Getting to Zero
Will Austin's green seif-image be realized with its "zero waste" goals?
"...a 95 percent reducing of waste that's sent to landfills. It's a philosophy that the leftover material from commerce..."
Nov. 14, 2014 News Feature by Robyn Ross
The Dirt on Composting
"...bagging it in plastic and burying it in tomblike landfills – makes it very hard for nature to do..."
Jan. 18, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola
Naked City
Even GOP reps don't like the burgeoning Northeast Travis waste belt.
"...Captex sludge farm near Manor, and the two private landfills in northeast Austin, near Harris Branch and Walnut Creek...."
Nov. 7, 2003 News Feature by Michael King
Naked City
Enviros and neighbors say the state's latest landfill rulings don't go far enough.
"...changes to its rules regarding daily operations plans for landfills -- and in a way that seems to benefit..."
Aug. 1, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple
A Banana Peel, a Diaper, and a Plastic Bag Walk Into Austin's Composting Program
How can a whole city compost, is it working, and can we reach zero waste by 2040?
"...produced, which pollutes soil and waterways. Not only do landfills give off methane gas – one of the worst..."
Feb. 21, 2020 Food Feature by Lina Fisher
As the City Strives for Zero Waste, Where Does Food Fit In?
Bringing farm-to-table back to the farm
"...goal of reducing the amount of trash sent to landfills by 90% and achieving zero waste by 2040. Since..."
Oct. 13, 2017 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes
A Concrete Solution
Should developers have to recycle?
"...Right now, much of it goes to area landfills. Austin Resource Recovery staff estimate that construction and demolition..."
Dec. 12, 2014 News Feature by Robyn Ross
Naked City
Members of Texas Campaign for the Environment joined local community groups in denouncing Gov. Perry's decision to sign a bill that will eliminate statewide, mandatory public meetings for hazardous waste sites, landfills, sludge dumps, and other trash facilities.
"...1609. Originally written to deal with small West Texas landfills, the measure was amended in the last days of..."
June 24, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola
Naked City
"...hold public meetings when new hazardous waste sites and landfills are being permitted by the TCEQ. TCE says the..."
June 17, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols
Naked City
"...Landfills De-Odorized?..."
March 22, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple
Over Massive Opposition, State OKs Landfill
Travis County, nearby residents seek to overturn TCEQ decision to allow new ACL transfer station
"...in September 2019, banning new waste processing activities on landfills – an action meant to curtail expansion of the..."
June 12, 2020 News Feature by Victoria Rossi
(Apple) Core Values
The East Side Compost Pedallers are cycling across a gardener's gold mine
"...goal of reducing the amount of trash sent to landfills by 90% by 2040. Although all restaurants will be..."
May 10, 2013 Food Feature by Jessi Cape
Restaurant Recyclers
From earth to table and back again
"...the largest single contributor to landfill space nationally, and landfills (not cattle) are the biggest producers of methane gas,..."
