The Mystery of the Potato PeopleIn the highlands of Papua New Guinea, there are some rather curious people.Their staple food ...

Molecular docking and laboratory validation show bacterial azoreductases decolorize azo and anthraquinone dyes at up to 2,000 ...

Better decisions often begin with a closer look at the information, materials and systems already shaping waste management operations. Two new EREF ...

They are durable, cheap and everyday life is now hardly imaginable without them: plastics. More then 400 million metric tons are produced every year. As a large proportion is only insufficiently ...

Researchers at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro used brewer's spent grain, the brewing industry's most abundant solid waste, as the primary substrate to produce a protease enzyme via ...

Environmentalists are slamming Starbucks for falsely claiming its plastic cups are “widely recyclable,” after an investigation could not confirm a single one being recycled. Vermont-based Beyond ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Former owners of the inactive, bankrupt Shoosmith Landfill in Chesterfield County have been indicted and are wanted by authorities, according to court records, as ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. -- The former owners of Chesterfield County's Shoosmith landfill — described by a bankruptcy trustee as a "potential environmental catastrophe" — have been indicted by a grand ...

Every year, the textile industry discards millions of tons of wool waste, a protein-rich material that most often ends up in landfills. A research team at Xiamen University has now found a strikingly ...

ALBANY — Two area landfills will serve as the final resting places for the Central Warehouse, which began coming down in earnest this week. Advance Albany County Alliance CEO Kevin O’Connor said ...

To break down a plastic bottle, science doesn’t need a hammer, but a microscopic scalpel. Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) found that swapping out a single atom inside a plastic ...

Paul Monroe, an engineer who oversees construction at the Juniper Ridge Landfill in Old Town and Alton, shows a model for collecting leachate in the proposed expansion area. Leachate is a mix of ...