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

Enzymatic deinking represents a sustainable advance in paper recycling, employing biocatalysts to dislodge and disperse printing inks from recovered fibres. Unlike conventional chemical–mechanical ...

Scientists have discovered a remarkable “Pac-Man enzyme” that helps bacteria devour certain types of plastic and may offer new hope in the fight against plastic pollution. Researchers found that ...

Polyesters containing ester-bond-breaking enzymes could help to reduce plastic pollution in marine environments.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Public sector workers for Orange County, California, represented by Teamsters Local 952, went on strike Tuesday, the union ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — Two former owners of the bankrupt Shoosmith landfill who were indicted following years of environmental violations have turned themselves in after being listed as fugitives ...

The Republic Services Itasca Landfill is a 425.8-acre municipal solid waste facility located in Hill County. It is located on Farm to Market Road 66, approximately two miles east of Interstate Highway ...

A Minnesota man was found guilty of killing his teenage son, whose remains were found in a landfill after he vanished for over a month. Jordan Dupree Collins Sr., who represented himself during his ...

New York City is running out of places to dump its trash. In the latest draft of the city’s once-a-decade solid waste management plan, the sanitation department warns that the landfills receiving much ...

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 ...

A research team has mapped how wastewater, so far an overlooked source of potassium fertilizer, offers a potential ...