In 2019, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense released a call for research projects to help the military deal with the copious amount of plastic waste generated when troops are sent to work ...

Using bacteria to take a bite out of plastic pollution is not new. But can the same microbes be used as a food source? In 2019, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense released a call for ...

People walking the streets of downtown Petaluma, California, started seeing something new on the sidewalks in summer. Alongside the usual trash cans and recycling containers were large purple bins ...

Burning plastic waste for household fuel, or to manage household waste, may be far more prevalent in poor urban areas in ...

The Dutch Government has awarded BlueAlp, Renewi, Shell, and Utrecht University with €1.5 million in funding to support their ...

The project seeks to repurpose by-products such as wheat straw and sugarcane residue into paper mailers.

Struggling for years with waste management, the border town of Phuentshogling is now turning this major challenge into an ...

The amount of plastic waste around the world continues to grow, ushering in a rising environmental, economic and public health crisis that affects everyone and everything on the planet. A 2022 report ...