IT IS an awful lot of rubbish. Since 1960 the amount of municipal waste being collected in America has nearly tripled, reaching 245m tonnes in 2005. According to European Union statistics, the amount ...

The projected cost of environmental testing has spoiled an Altoona Water Authority plan to recycle waste material at the Westerly Sewer Treatment Plant. The material has been stored over the years ...

SINGAPORE: Paper recycling firms are scaling down operations as prices for materials like waste paper and cardboard fall. Local companies selling paper waste to overseas buyers also face rising costs ...

Mark Garrett, Managing Director at Clearpoint Recycling, on the opportunities and challenges of plastic waste exports.

The excess dumping of waste at the Dhapa ground has been a cause of concern for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. The civic body is looking for an alternative dumping ground as Dhapa is gradually ...

A new kind of building material is taking shape in a lab at the University of Michigan. The modular, flat black panels panel is the kind of wall-like material that’s used to clad the exterior of ...