Three recycling bins outside shopping mall, illustrating what items are and are not recyclable, Plastic, Paper and Foam, in Florida. Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images ...

Most of the plastic waste is made from fossil fuels. Yet less than 9% of plastics ever gets recycled. "Even with the plastics that are recyclable, it's very rare that they can be recycled more ...

As a result, textiles have become an overlooked source of plastic pollution. Researchers discovered that waste from the global apparel industry is leaking millions of tons of plastic into the ...

Now, a team has transformed an organic industrial-scale waste product ... Method Can Detect Harmful Salts Forming in Nuclear Waste Melters Jan. 7, 2025 — A new way to identify salts in nuclear ...

New reports tracking the efforts to reduce plastic waste show some companies are making slow but steady progress to cut harmful plastics and increase reuse and recycling, but the world is still ...

The county has proposed monthly clean-up days, with municipality staff educating the public and promoting proper waste management. Filthy heaps of garbage in the backstreets of Lodwar town are ...

Jan. 2, 2025 — A research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics waste, then using the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon dioxide (CO2), a ...

At the top of the landfill, workers pick through green waste spread across the ground, getting rid of plastic and other contaminants. “ There's not automated magic to some of this handling of ...

"Unbelievable." Homeowner irate after receiving delivery from Home Depot: 'You need to contact customer service' first ...

At the same time, according to research by German environmentalists, only 50% of plastic waste ends up in landfills. So where do the rest go? It is not difficult to guess that millions of tons of ...

MOE Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai ...

A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life. While plastic has revolutionised our way of life since it was invented in the 1950s, the ...