Landfill

The private company behind efforts to capture and clean landfill emissions into natural gas at the Ada County Landfill says it’s weeks away from delivering fuel to Intermountain Gas customers. Boise State Public Radio first reported on the project in January, now a group of citizens is questioning the safety of that gas.

A new facility at the Ada County Landfill will soon be processing methane emissions from our trash into natural gas for commercial use.

The Ada County landfill works hard to make itself as "green" as possible. A new project will make the process cleaner while reducing greenhouse gas emissions & making more money to keep the landfill going. Ada County Commissioners Rod Beck and Kendra Kenyon are here to talk more about it.

With many of us staying home and ordering items online, there’s more recycling being done in the Treasure Valley this year. And a new report shows the…

As most of us have been spending more time at home, the amount of waste we’ve been taking to the curb has increased, too. Trucks picking up our trash,…

Last year, Mountain Home Air Force Base sent a shipment of hazardous waste to a municipal landfill outside of Boise. The material is the leftovers of a…

In Boise, the days of throwing all of your recyclable material in the same bin are over. That’s because China -- which used to accept recycled material…

In 2014, an analysis in Ada County determined that nearly half of the trash being thrown out by residential households was organic waste, such as food…