With 430 million tons of plastic waste generated annually and less than 10% of it recycled, the plastic crisis is out of control. Thankfully, HIRO Technologies is creating a new path forward, powered ...

Waste management is no longer simply a disposal function. By prioritizing methane management through both downstream controls ...

Kay Masterson has always wanted to make her Boston-area restaurant more sustainable, partnering with an organic farm to get some vegetables close by and offering reusable containers for customers’ ...

The issue of waste in healthcare is garnering more attention than ever right now, and for good reason. Two bullet points illustrate the scope of our industry’s challenges: Let’s imagine, though, that ...

With Global Recycling Day on March 18, the Western Cape Government urges residents and businesses to view waste as a valuable ...

Waste management has evolved from a linear model of “take–make–dispose” to a more sustainable framework predicated on reduction, reuse and recycling within a circular economy. Contemporary strategies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new method using steel waste in cement production could cut CO₂ emissions by 80% while producing valuable syngas. (CREDIT: ...

At a New Hampshire facility, agricultural plastics are compacted together. Photo courtesy Guy Crosby/CNS Camryn Woods is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s ...

The Beer Snake—that magnificent slinky plastic stretch of hundreds of emptied beer cups stacked up by golf fans at the 16th party hole at the WM Phoenix Open—might be viewed as the poster child for ...

A major joint initiative to develop standardised radioactive waste container design and procurement across the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority estate is expected to produce significant ...