New reports tracking the efforts to reduce plastic waste show some companies are making slow but steady progress to cut harmful plastics and increase reuse and recycling, but the world is still "off ...

On average, every person worldwide generates about 8 kilograms of electronic waste annually, with significant regional variations. Europe leads in e-waste generation with approximately 17 kilograms ...

The amount of plastic waste around the world continues to grow, ushering in a rising environmental, economic and public health crisis that affects everyone and everything on the planet. A 2022 report ...

Farm waste like crop stalks could fight climate change by becoming building materials that store carbon for decades instead ...

Picture a plastic shopping bag that some busy customer picks up in the checkout line of a store—say, the British supermarket Tesco. That shopper piles her groceries into the bag, takes it home to a ...

E-waste, which refers to discarded electrical or electronic devices, is the fastest growing domestic waste stream in the world, and it is highly toxic, threatening public health. Much of this e-waste, ...

Last Friday, a group gathered inside a building in East London, holding an unusual medley of used goods, from tattered teddy bears and old shoes to an elegant but broken vintage blender. These people ...

Different countries planning the safe, permanent disposal of nuclear waste in geological repositories are sharing experiences and learning from each other, as Neil Hyatt, chief scientific advisor to ...