Recycling bin filled with plastic bottles emphasizes waste management and environmental awareness. Image in public domain.

In this world, plastic is the most stubborn waste. Normally, the plastic waste gets disposed of via municipal collection, ...

People and animals create lots of waste that is usually sent to landfills, incinerated, or stored in engineered ponds such as ...

This story is co-published with The Guardian and supported by The Heinrich Böll Foundation. Andrée Nieuwjaer, a 67-year-old resident of Roubaix, France, is what one might call a frugal shopper. In ...

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Before smartphones, tablets, and digital labs, science class for Baby Boomers meant getting hands-on with experiments that ...

Sewage pollution in the Thames has been a problem for centuries. A new art installation at Science Gallery London explores the history, engineering, geography and science of human waste in the river.

Courtesy of BioFlitro To safely fly when it’s cold out, special fluid keeps planes from icing over. However, spraying the fluid creates a lot of waste. Now, airport leaders in Pasco, Washington, this ...

The Hindu’s weekly Science for All newsletter explains all things Science, without the jargon. Plastic — that most indispensable and all-pervasive, indestructible and acutely polluting material — one ...

This year is expected to be the hottest on record, but 18-year-old activist Shrusti Amula is refusing to feel down about the future of the planet. Instead, she’s working to reduce the impacts of ...