A new review proposes combining enzymes fermented from agricultural waste with artificial nanozymes to degrade persistent ...

Water running off busy roads in California carries the pollutant 6PPD-quinone at levels that could harm two endangered fish species.

The Mystery of the Potato PeopleIn the highlands of Papua New Guinea, there are some rather curious people.Their staple food ...

They are durable, cheap and everyday life is now hardly imaginable without them: plastics. More then 400 million metric tons are produced every year. As a large proportion is only insufficiently ...

The Twin Cities metro area is on track to get its first new landfill in more than half a century, marking what state officials call “a significant milestone.” Dem-Con Landfill’s proposed landfill in ...

The City Beat is a free Monday newsletter bringing Concord’s biggest local stories and city updates straight to your inbox. Sign up Casella Waste Systems will close its Bethlehem landfill at the end ...

Researchers at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro used brewer's spent grain, the brewing industry's most abundant solid waste, as the primary substrate to produce a protease enzyme via ...

Environmentalists are slamming Starbucks for falsely claiming its plastic cups are “widely recyclable,” after an investigation could not confirm a single one being recycled. Vermont-based Beyond ...

Every year, the textile industry discards millions of tons of wool waste, a protein-rich material that most often ends up in landfills. A research team at Xiamen University has now found a strikingly ...

To break down a plastic bottle, science doesn’t need a hammer, but a microscopic scalpel. Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) found that swapping out a single atom inside a plastic ...

Paul Monroe, an engineer who oversees construction at the Juniper Ridge Landfill in Old Town and Alton, shows a model for collecting leachate in the proposed expansion area. Leachate is a mix of ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - The Cedar Rapids Linn County Solid Waste Agency can now reject large commercial trash loads containing recyclable or banned materials as it works to preserve space in its ...