MADURAI: The Madurai corporation has launched a ‘Waste to Wealth’ initiative to improve source segregation and ensure ...

A team of researchers programmed yeast to turn broken-down plastic and agricultural waste into sweet treats called µBites.

The system intelligently detects, selects, and sorts the trash into the correct bin using machine vision and smart automation ...

In a bid to addresses the challenges of labour-intensive garbage collection and segregation, a team of Chandigarh University ...

In the United States, we brush more than 14 million gallons of toothpaste on our teeth every single year. That's roughly four to six tubes a person. When consumers are finished with the tube, research ...

Gov. Bill Lee says it's too early to discuss potential sites for disposal of nuclear waste if Tennessee is chosen as the site of a U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus. Lee ...

PROGRESS VILLAGE, Fla.—The radioactive phosphogypsum stack looms tall and wide beside this small, neighborly community southeast of Tampa. The community was established during the late 1950s to ...

High radiation levels have prompted officials to contact hundreds of residents near Buffalo and driven four families out of their homes — and state and federal environmental regulators say the source ...

Singapore’s National Environment Agency has awarded S$5.3M ($4.1M) to three food waste upcycling projects as part of its Closing the Resource Loop initiative. To tackle its food waste problem and ...

Imagine what would happen if the source of your electricity was not the sun, wind, or water flow, but rather the moisture present in the air? The ability of moisture to provide energy has been ...

Walk onto the cutting floor of almost any garment factory in the world and you’ll see rolls of fabric laid out in stacks. A technician arranges a pattern on the cloth to cut out the building blocks ...

Egypt is famous for its ancient history and culture, but it is struggling with a particularly modern problem: plastic waste. Egyptian designers Mariam Hazem and Hend Riad are on a mission to give ...