New research on microplastics in brains reminds us that while scientists compile safety data, our leaders should still act ...

After the landfill accepts its final load of solid waste in early 2029, the authority will likely keep its full staff for several ... a thin layer of impermeable plastic, or both.

Half a billion straws are used in the United States every day, according to a popular — but perhaps not the most scientific — estimate. The biggest buyer: the federal government, which buys more ...

Last Tuesday afternoon, a woman waiting at the bus stop downed her last sip of coffee as the 33 pulled up. She moved to toss her empty cup in the green metal city trash can by the stop, but it was ...

One frustrated employee shared a photo of carts full of healthy-looking plants headed for the dumpster at their Home Depot.

Begin by mechanically scraping food waste into your compost bucket or trash. Then save the container until you are ... The important thing is to avoid putting in half-full pop bottles or spilling ...

A new discovery offers a promising way to break down stubborn plastics like Plexiglass into their original building blocks, ...

Monsanto used and even owned Harrison's Bond Road Landfill. Many other sites accepted waste from Addyston's plastics chemical ...

Addyston's longtime plastics chemical plant will soon close. Its impact will live on in the ground, air and water.

Clapp is a journalist and the author of “Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash,” from which this ... more boggling dimensions than with plastic. The time scales alone are dizzying.

Buried deep in a Welsh landfill, beneath layers of years-old garbage, there is a hard drive that holds the key to almost $800 million in bitcoin – or so James Howells believes, after ...