The use of disposable diapers (nappies) is growing in African countries. The disposable diaper undoubtedly makes it easier ...

Holding up a wad of cash, Cristian smiles as he counts out £50 notes while a friend beams and waves a finger at the camera.

Burning waste to generate heat and electricity was deemed the UK's "dirtiest form of power" in a BBC investigation in October 2024, after the country's last coal plant closed the month before.

The Heavy Picker 4.0 is a multipurpose waste sorting robot that can handle bulky materials such as wood, metal, plastic and cardboard. It is capable of sorting items weighing up to 88 pounds each ...

New York City and Los Angeles recently announced their plans to go “zero waste.” (Russavia/New York City Department of Sanitation, CC BY-NC 2.0) By signing up, you confirm that you are over ...

NORWELL - A day care company and a waste management facility in Massachusetts have teamed up to turn dirty diapers into electricity. Diapers are one of the biggest sources of U.S. household waste ...

Marshall Drummond, chancellor of the L.A. Community Colleges, served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences subcommittee on emerging technologies for radioactive waste management and ...

We tend to think of human waste as a phantom material condition, relayed to the management of urban resources; yet it infiltrates the air and water we breathe. It is a matter intricately enmeshed with ...

But as the e-waste industry proliferates—some 1,200 mostly tiny companies generated revenue of more than $3 billion last year—it has also become enmeshed in questionable practices that ...

After Waste Management lost a $1 billion contract to pick up Oakland's garbage, the company is trying to put a ballot measure on the November ballot to overturn the city's decision.

WASHINGTON – The coal ash spill in Tennessee last month is putting a spotlight on whether the ash from 450 other power plants around the country could be contaminating the nation’s drinking ...