Although academic labs account for a tiny fraction of the hazardous wastes produced nationwide--probably less than 1 percent--they must abide by the same stringent regulations as those imposed upon ...

Five general principles of waste minimization apply just as well to the smaller-scale operations of research laboratories as they do to industrial settings: Chemicals can be ordered conservatively to ...

Massachusetts residents and businesses dispose of enough trash yearly to fill up about 31 Fenway Parks. Despite decades of government policies to reduce waste, we continue throwing away about six ...

Officials in southeastern Michigan were angry when a landfill and deep-injection wells near Detroit received contaminated soils and liquids from a train derailment in East Palestine. Resistance also ...

A fire at a Casella transfer station in Naples highlights concerns about lithium-ion batteries and other potentially hazardous materials entering the waste stream.

Nearly 80 years of US nuclear waste is stuck in "temporary" storage sites. How big of a problem is that?

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. called Metro Manila’s worsening garbage problem as “critical” after inspecting a staggering ...

Cebu City reportedly spends P2M to dispose of collected waste to the landfill in Aloguinsan, about 62 km away.