Plastic pollution has spread to Earth’s farthest reaches, with widespread effects on wildlife, the environment and human health. To curb this problem, U.N. member countries are negotiating a global ...

Each needle, syringe, vial, and packaging joins the waste from approximately 198 million doses of influenza vaccine the CDC produced for this season, says Jim Anderson, vice president of product ...

Four hundred million tons of toxic waste are produced each year. Just imagine that for a moment — that’s 70 Great Pyramids of Giza combined. It’s not something most of us take into account when ...

Food waste is a fact of life. Also a fact is that it’s smelly, wet and heavy. It makes a mess out of the rest of the trash and is generally nasty. Getting food waste out of the trash may also provide ...

Getting organic food waste out of the waste stream won’t solve the Connecticut's waste disposal problems, but it’s widely recognized those problems won’t be solved without it. The state and some local ...

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Whatever happened to the concept of vitrifying waste? I'm pretty sure vitrified waste is the exactly subject that this article is about. It's not some sort of glowing liquid sludge (like you'd see on ...