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Brexit department warns EU counterparts it will ‘return waste to its country of origin’ if an agreement on nuclear cooperation cannot be reached

We're drowning in plastic bottles. New statistics released by The Guardian reveal that humans purchase one million plastic bottles every minute - and that adds up to nearly 500 billion bottles a year. While it's true many...

We're drowning in plastic bottles. You already know plastic water bottle use - and their disposal or lack thereof - is a worldwide dilemma, but new statistics released by The Guardian reveal just how staggering the issue...

Vancouver, Canada wants to become a zero-waste city - no easy feat for an area with over 600,000 people. But as part of its Greenest City Action Plan, the city is exploring options to limit single-use packaging, like all...

Businesses in Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam are getting involved in efforts to collect waste bread and turn it into biogas and fertiliser

Nuclear, wind and solar power in UK generate more electricity than gas and coal combined for first time ever

Plastic waste takes on new life in the PET Pavilion, a temporary structure that popped up in a public park in Enschede, The Netherlands. Project.DWG and LOOS.FM designed the 227-square-meter ephemeral pavilion to spark dialogue...

Emergency declared at Hanford nuclear reservation in state’s south-eastNo one injured and officials detect no release of radiation A portion of a storage tunnel that contains rail cars full of radioactive waste collapsed...

Trash is a big problem in Myanmar. Garbage is scattered in the streets with smells of burning trash never far behind—but an innovative social enterprise has found a way to turn that adversity into advantage. Tucked in the...

A bioenergy project could take the waste streams of a group of farms in New South Wales and turn them into electricity and heat for local residents, and make fertiliser from the leftovers

Airlines generated 5.2m tonnes of waste in 2016, most of which went to landfill or incineration – and it cost them £400m

Takahama reactors to restart within a month despite Greenpeace saying they have serious unresolved safety issues

Researchers are scrambling for ways to get the strong, light material out of landfill and make it ready for recycling and reuse

 Humans, especially Americans, are kind of slobs. We mess up the Earth by throwing out about 4.5 pounds of garbage per person on average every day. Two-thirds of that waste could be composted, but isn’t. And half...

From encouraging bike riding and compostable plates to better recycling, organisers have diverted 98% of waste from landfill – and they want to do more