Local authorities in Milpitas, California have ordered operators of the 342-acre Newby Island landfill to deploy drones and install monitors to track chemicals causing persistent bad smells, and to automate collection of landfill gases. Residents, including engineer Chia-Ling Kong who has campaigned against the odours, say smells have lasted hours daily despite recent improvements. The landfill's operators say they are committed to safe operation and protecting air quality.
bbc.co.uk
· 2026-10-15
A Reddit user known as Tsuto says weekly visits to their county landfill's electronics recycling area have yielded enough discarded SSDs, HDDs, GPUs, RAM and even a laptop to assemble a working Proxmox home lab server. The rig combines scavenged parts—mirrored 256GB SSDs, a 1TB SSD, and three 2TB HDDs in RAID1 for ZFS storage—with a Core i7-7700 and 64GB of RAM bought separately on Amazon. Tsuto also salvaged an Asus ROG laptop with a GTX 860M GPU, fixed with a $25 replacement battery, for casual gaming.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-14
Writers Alex Chalmers and Rob Wiblin make the case that landfilling waste, when done properly, is frequently cheaper, cleaner, and more environmentally sound than recycling or reusing materials. They point to plastic bags versus cotton totes as a key example: plastic bags require a fraction of the energy to produce and dispose of compared to the water- and energy-intensive process of making reusable cotton alternatives.
worksinprogress.news
· 2026-09-02
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