The recent Global Waste Management Outlook 2024, published by UNEP, sheds light on a pressing global issue: the ever-growing mountain of waste. Predictions indicate that municipal solid waste ...

January brings sticker shock on your credit cards, and maybe that bathroom scale, from all that holiday splurging on gifts and entertainment, nice meals and parties, now that we can go out again after ...

Millions of tonnes of asbestos are being removed from buildings around the world – can this dangerous mineral be disposed of permanently? Or even be put to good use? At a small industrial unit in ...

Coral reefs, already under pressure from warming oceans, are increasingly also suffocated by pollution. For Kenya, a country ...

Renewable energy waste is a growing problem due to the increasing use of solar panels and wind turbines. Improper disposal of renewable energy equipment can lead to environmental and health problems.

In 1987, a barge carrying over three thousand tonnes of trash destined for North Carolina from New York became a floating symbol of America’s waste problem as it travelled along the country’s East ...