Published Aug. 30, 2018 By Philipp Schmidt-Pathmann Last week, Waste Dive interviewed Waste Connections CEO Ron Mittelstaedt on a wide range of topics. The economics of recycling as they relate to landfills were among them. In response to a question about what it would take to change this equation in the U.S., Mittelstaedt used Germany

By John Newton UPDATED April 19th, 2018 In the decades before government regulations were put in place for landfills, anything and everything could be buried beneath the ground at an old dump site, some of which may still be releasing toxic chemicals or other hazardous materials into the Earth. As