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 ...

The trash slide at the Binaliw Sanitary Landfill did not only expose waste. It exposed neglect. The mountains of garbage do ...

Amid the tall ceilings of a massive lab, innovation is bubbling to the surface. "We're trying to convert the food waste to bioplastic," said Drew Wang, the principal investigator of a new project at ...

Plastics have revolutionized manufacturing, but they’re still terrible for the environment. Manufacturing plastics is an energy-intensive slog that ends in mountains of toxic industrial waste and ...

How many of your personal gadgets or home appliances have you replaced or thrown away in the last few years? While it might not get as much coverage as plastic bags, electronic waste is just as thorny ...

The Kochi Corporation’s annual expenditure on waste management – including both biodegradable and non-biodegradable – has soared to over ₹32 crore from less than ₹10 crore in the years preceding the ...