Composting is growing across the U.S. as food waste and landfill concerns mount, but experts say major obstacles remain ...

Officials in southeastern Michigan were angry when a landfill and deep-injection wells near Detroit received contaminated soils and liquids from a train derailment in East Palestine. Resistance also ...

Four hundred million tons of toxic waste are produced each year. Just imagine that for a moment — that’s 70 Great Pyramids of Giza combined. It’s not something most of us take into account when ...

January brings sticker shock on your credit cards, and maybe that bathroom scale, from all that holiday splurging on gifts and entertainment, nice meals and parties, now that we can go out again after ...

Each needle, syringe, vial, and packaging joins the waste from approximately 198 million doses of influenza vaccine the CDC produced for this season, says Jim Anderson, vice president of product ...

Plastic pollution has spread to Earth’s farthest reaches, with widespread effects on wildlife, the environment and human health. To curb this problem, U.N. member countries are negotiating a global ...

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Food waste is a fact of life. Also a fact is that it’s smelly, wet and heavy. It makes a mess out of the rest of the trash and is generally nasty. Getting food waste out of the trash may also provide ...

Modernizing New York City’s waste management will require shifting toward technology-driven systems to reduce costs and ...