A new audit by the Oakland City Auditor's Office found that high waste disposal costs, gaps in enforcement and limited access to legal dumping options are contributing to the city's ...

Five general principles of waste minimization apply just as well to the smaller-scale operations of research laboratories as they do to industrial settings: Chemicals can be ordered conservatively to ...

Massachusetts residents and businesses dispose of enough trash yearly to fill up about 31 Fenway Parks. Despite decades of government policies to reduce waste, we continue throwing away about six ...

Officials in southeastern Michigan were angry when a landfill and deep-injection wells near Detroit received contaminated soils and liquids from a train derailment in East Palestine. Resistance also ...

Although academic labs account for a tiny fraction of the hazardous wastes produced nationwide--probably less than 1 percent--they must abide by the same stringent regulations as those imposed upon ...

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 ...

As Sri Lankans celebrate the traditional New Year on April 14 each year, a period marked by family gatherings and renewal, ...

There’s one thing every planned permanent repository for spent nuclear fuel has in common: They’re all underground mines. Like any mine, a mined repository for nuclear waste is a complex feat of ...

By Dr. Elikplim Kwabla APETORGBOR Ghana is sitting on a resource it continues to misclassify as a nuisance. Every day, large volumes of solid waste are collected across urban Ghana, especially in ...

BRUSSELS, Oct 28 (Reuters) - A leaked European Commission draft report says Europe should solve the problem of handling nuclear waste by making industry pay to stash it deep underground, where it will ...