People and animals create lots of waste that is usually sent to landfills, incinerated, or stored in engineered ponds such as ...

This was for the first time that the “end-of-life fate” of plastic around the globe, which had ever been manufactured, had been calculated. The authors did so by collating data on production, use, and ...

Owners of a waste dumping pit on farmland in Aurora are appealing Marion County’s rejection of their application to restart ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Montgomery County's waste incinerator at Dickerson (white stack and building) also generate electricity. (Photo courtesy EPA Clean ...

Polypropylene and polyethylene are two durable and affordable plastics commonly used as packaging materials, snack wrappers, ...

A new study determines that just four policies can reduce mismanaged plastic waste -- plastic that isn't recycled or properly disposed of and ends up as pollution -- by 91% and plastic-related ...

A multimillion-dollar government project is betting that particle accelerators can "burn" through the world's most dangerous ...

“Our method doesn’t just destroy these hazardous chemicals; it turns waste into something of value,” said James Tour, the T.T. and W.F. Rice University Chao Professor of Chemistry, in a groundbreaking ...