Six bills that seek to prevent new solid waste landfills to be placed above fresh groundwater sources anywhere in Hawaii are ...

Burning plastic waste releases harmful chemicals into the air, including dioxins, furans and mercury, many of which are known carcinogens. That’s why, in some respects, incinerating plastic is thought ...

Globally, waste-to-energy (WTE) technology has emerged as a promising solution to the twin problems of waste disposal and ...

Monrovia, the capital city of Liberia, faces a critical waste management issue, which negatively impacts both the environment ...

Hundreds of tonnes of waste will have to be trucked daily through fragile rainforest following a suspected battery fire at a waste factory.

Tempe hosts Zero Waste Day to reduce landfill waste by allowing residents to drop off non-standard recyclables.

The Quivira Mine cleanup is part of the 2014 Tronox settlement, which provided $5.15 billion to clean up contaminated sites across the United States. The settlement allocated $1 billion of those funds ...

The fire — which erupted near Castaic Lake in Los Angeles County, north of Santa Clarita, late Wednesday morning — has grown ...

Cairns Regional Council has confirmed changes to sercives at the Portsmith Transfer Station as a result of a major fire at ...

Amidst the discussions around the ongoing environmental calamity that is Republic Services' Coffin Butte Landfill, it is difficult to come to grips with just how, exactly, we’ve arrived at this ...

To combat the industry's waste problem, some studios are trading throwaway materials for ones they say can biodegrade or be recycled.

EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are removing hazardous materials from wildfire-affected properties, focusing on safe disposal of toxic debris.