Colorado, Oregon, Illinois, Nevada, New York, Vermont and Washington have new laws, including electronics and battery EPR and ...

Waste360 asked three waste and recycling experts for their thoughts on what we might expect in the next few years. Here’s ...

The U.S. government launched a new operation extracting rare materials from Cold War era nuclear waste that is likely to ...

UMass Amherst is using two AI-focused tools to cut down on its waste and more effectively sort trash from recycling. School ...

Many multi-unit residential buildings are designed or managed in ways that make recycling and proper waste disposal difficult ...

More than 2 billion people, about a third of the world’s population, face food insecurity. At the same time, a recent UN report estimated that more than 1 billion metric tons of food went to waste in ...

Every holiday season, our houses fill with upgraded gadgets and the promise that we’ll deal with the old stuff later. Meanwhile, the drawer of mystery cords multiplies, and some items just get tossed ...

For decades, Victorians burned their rubbish in backyard incinerators. The besser-block structures were most popular. Waist-height cuboids of concrete blocks, sitting by back fences ready to greedily ...

About 170 billion cells are in the brain, and as they go about their regular tasks, they produce waste — a lot of it. To stay healthy, the brain needs to wash away all that debris. But how exactly it ...

This story is a partnership between Inside Climate News and CBS News. Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" in the video player above. HOUSTON, ...