Researchers at The University of Manchester have shown that microbial communities from terrestrial hot springs could be ...

Among the various plastic recycling methods being explored, one promising approach is biological plastic recycling, also ...

Valley-type landfills, a globally widespread source of contamination, produce leachate that significantly affecting adjacent soils. Clarifying leachate’s contribution to global biogeochemical cycles ...

Today on CNN10: In honor of Global Recycling Day, we'll get an up-close tour of a unique facility that helps keep hard-to-recycle materials from clogging landfills and harming the environment. Then, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A Wyoming landfill claims to be the first in the nation to divert hazardous e-waste using a process designed ...

Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into something productive. Across the United States, about 97 million metric tons of ...

For many residents of Rutherford County, the conversation about waste management started with a smell. What those residents discovered is that the challenges facing Rutherford County are not just ...

Since joining the EU in 2007, Romanians might’ve expected the country to have cleaned up its waste management practices by now. Yet it still relies on landfills, ranks last in recycling rates, and is ...

This year's regional winners advanced sustainability by issuing green, blue, social, and transition bonds while funding renewable energy projects across LatAm. There has been steady progress in Latin ...

Brookhaven is asking state regulators to approve a five-year extension of the town's landfill operating permit as the town moves to complete the oft-delayed shutdown of the lucrative but troubled dump ...

A catastrophic dumpsite collapse buried scavengers collecting recyclables at a landfill in the Philippines’ Rizal province on Feb. 20, following a similar incident in Cebu in January that killed 36 ...