Article: New research gives landfill sites a green future.

Article: Woodland plan brings new life to landfill sites; ...
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  November 24, 2009 ;     627 words ... ... project. Two former landfill sites and overgrown surrounding ... partnership with the Forestry Commission to regenerate disused landfill sites. Liverpool Biennial ... Tim Oliver, from the Forestry Commission, said: "After months ...

Article: Closed-up landfill sites could become woodland
Yorkshire Post;  May 31, 2008 ;     455 words ... ... on former landfill sites, provided ... study by the Forestry Commission, published ... operational landfill sites in England ... Research, the Forestry Commission's research ... of trees on landfill sites and the specification ...

Article: LARGEST EVER STUDY INTO HEALTH OF POPULATIONS AROUND ...
PR Newswire;  August 16, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... health risks for populations living around landfill sites is published today. The Small Area Health ... cancers in populations living within 2km of landfill sites. The group examined 9,565 landfill sites that were in operation between 1982 and ...

Article: Child defects 'higher near landfill sites'
Evening News - Scotland;  August 16, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... been found in children born near landfill sites, a study revealed today. The ... first to suggest a risk from landfill sites which do not take hazardous waste. There are about 300 licensed landfill sites in Scotland, taking about 12 ...

Article: Landfill sites linked to risk of birth defects ...
The Independent - London;  August 17, 2001 ;     700+ words ...BABIES BORN near landfill sites for hazardous waste are at extra ... babies born near the 774 special landfill sites in Britain which take hazardous ... was not possible to determine landfill sites were the cause, it said. More ...

Article: Adverse pregnancy outcomes near landfill sites in ...
Archives of Environmental Health;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... of domestic and industrial waste in landfill sites may expose local residents to dioxins ... associated with living in proximity to landfill sites, especially those sites which deal ... babies whose mothers lived close to landfill sites used for the disposal of hazardous ...

Article: Study Investigates Health Of Populations Around Landfill ...
Health & Medicine Week;  September 17, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... health risks for populations living around landfill sites was published in the August 17, 2001 ... populations living within two kilometers of landfill sites. The group examined 9,565 landfill sites that were in operation between 1982 and ...