As packaging waste rises and rules tighten, chemical recycling offers a key solution—but firms must move quickly to stay ...

With the Central Maui Landfill’s limited capacity expanding and 400,000 tons of Lahaina fire debris on its way, a company is ...

GORDON—While the majority of about 40 people who attended a public meeting/presentation by WEST (Waste Energy) raised concerns with the proposal to build an advanced waste recovery plant on property ...

The curious minds at ColdFusion explore how plastic waste could become an unexpected fuel source for passenger jets.

Here's a rather novel way to keep trash out of landfills: engineering biologists at the University of Edinburgh have ...

This discovery offers a two-for-one solution. Researchers make game-changing breakthrough using common plastic waste — here's ...

Merging synthetic organic chemistry and biotechnology, researchers have engineered Escherichia coli that can synthesize small ...

Banning bags, along with other plastic packaging, is the most commonly used remedy to rein in plastic waste. So far, 115 nations have taken that approach, but in different ways. In France, bags ...

The majority of individuals who segregate their plastic waste for recycling do so with the expectation that the majority of ...

A study on a single hysterectomy found that the procedure can produce up to 20 pounds of waste, most of which is plastic. Single-use plastic can be an attractive option for hospitals—cheap, ...

As plastic waste piles up in the world’s landfills, sewer systems and oceans, the United Nations has set a goal to reduce plastic pollution by 80 percent by the year 2040.

A new gasification process designed for the disposal of biosolids is also capable of destroying per- and polyfluoroalkyl ...