Garbage

On this West Virginia Morning, illegal dumpsites are a problem just about everywhere. We hear about a group of volunteers who are working to clean some of them up. Also, in this show, we listen to an excerpt from the latest episode of Us & Them, which is all about the charter school debate in West Virginia.

Today, most of our trash ends up in landfills. In the United States, we produce more than 200 million tons of trash every single year. But what if we…

On this West Virginia Morning, we hear how a new facility in Berkeley County is trying to tackle landfill overflow by turning trash into a fuel source. We…

A raft of garbage covers a swath of the Monongahela River in northern West Virginia, a dozen miles upstream from the drinking water intake for 100,000…

Lawmakers in the House have approved a bill that would increase the penalties for littering in the state.Littering on public or private property in West…

Landfilling has been the main source of getting rid of waste for centuries. But a new technology coming to West Virginia may change how we think of waste…

The Senate prepares to vote on a bill to protect water resources and the House of Delegates passes a bill increase penalties for child pornography. The…