Under the scheme, climbers paid a $4,000 deposit that was returned if they brought 8kg of waste down the mountain.

Waste360 asked three waste and recycling experts for their thoughts on what we might expect in the next few years. Here’s ...

The U.S. government launched a new operation extracting rare materials from Cold War era nuclear waste that is likely to ...

More than 2 billion people, about a third of the world’s population, face food insecurity. At the same time, a recent UN report estimated that more than 1 billion metric tons of food went to waste in ...

From old cellphones to broken refrigerators and discarded e-cigarettes, global electronic waste has reached record highs and is growing five times faster than rates of recycling – bringing a host of ...

Many multi-unit residential buildings are designed or managed in ways that make recycling and proper waste disposal difficult ...

Every holiday season, our houses fill with upgraded gadgets and the promise that we’ll deal with the old stuff later. Meanwhile, the drawer of mystery cords multiplies, and some items just get tossed ...

For decades, Victorians burned their rubbish in backyard incinerators. The besser-block structures were most popular. Waist-height cuboids of concrete blocks, sitting by back fences ready to greedily ...

Wasatch Integrated Waste Management District in Layton was selected to receive over $3.4 million in Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling grants to help improve post-consumer materials management ...

DULUTH — A local garbage hauler soon may be slapped with fines for alleged repeated failures to handle sorted recyclable materials properly. The board of Resource Renew, the rebranded Western Lake ...

It is evident that Washington loses hundreds of billions of dollars annually on spending that most Americans would certainly consider wasteful. Lawmakers seeking to rein in spending and budget ...

First glassified Hanford tank waste canisters moved to lined landfill. Integrated Disposal Facility be permanent disposal site for vitrified waste. Landfill can only accept low level radioactive waste ...