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Don't throw it out — throw it on. The Agraloop Bio-Refinery, a new technology developed by materials science company Circular Systems S.P.C., is capable of turning food waste such as banana peels, pineapple leaves and hemp...

As anyone who’s been to a community meeting knows, the NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) syndrome is often a frustrating roadblock. So when Vancouver-based firm PUBLIC: Architecture + Communication was approached to build a wastewater...

A new study from the Earth Engineering Center (EEC|CCNY) at the Grove School of Engineering of the City College of New York suggests that plastic waste can effectively be converted into usable fuel and energy rather than...

The powerful few who benefit from the fossil fuel status quo are exerting their influence

Compensation offered to encourage local communities to allow test boreholes is described as ‘completely inadequate’

It takes hundreds of years for disposable diapers to decompose in landfills - but this new machine can turn 220 pounds of dirty diapers into clean, raw materials in a single hour...

Scientists recently found that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - now three times the size of France - is showing signs of exponential growth. In a new study published in the journal Nature, researchers provide a detailed...

Friends Mike Thompson and Arne Hendriks have created a floating island made of fat, a "Fatberg" as they call it. With a current weight of over a metric ton, the car-sized Fatberg began as one drop of fat in a glass of water...

Friends Mike Thompson and Arne Hendriks have created a floating island made of fat, a "Fatberg" as they call it. With a current weight of over a metric ton, the car-sized Fatberg began as one drop of fat in a glass of water...

A devastating garbage landslide precipitated by heavy rainfall wounded six people and killed 16 in Maputo, Mozambique, The Guardian reported. The 42-acre Hulene dump — located in the impoverished neighborhood of Hulene...

Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa has had one landfill for around 50 years: the Koshe dump site. Serving over three million people, it's about as large as 36 football pitches, according to the United Nations Environment Program...

On January 1st, China banned imports of 24 kinds of trash - and the move is wrecking havoc on Hong Kong. Reuters describes a "growing mountain of waste" piling up in a city that recycles little of its garbage. Doug Woodring,...

Dubai plans to deal with their garbage in a bold new way: with the largest waste-to-energy plant in the world. Gulf News and New Atlas reported the government announced plans for a facility that will handle as much as two...

Pollution isn't just Earth's problem anymore. Despite not having established a permanent lunar residency, humans have already managed to dump 400,000 pounds of trash on the Moon. Much of this debris has been left behind over...

New search for communities willing to host underground site for thousands of years