They are durable, cheap and everyday life is now hardly imaginable without them: plastics. More then 400 million metric tons ...

Researchers from Aarhus University and the Danish Technological Institute have taken a new approach in the search for enzymes capable of breaking down some of the most difficult types of plastic to ...

Molecular docking and laboratory validation show bacterial azoreductases decolorize azo and anthraquinone dyes at up to 2,000 ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati used a bacterium called ‘ Brevundimonas sp. AJZ05’ that thrives in ...

Ten years ago, academic Lynne Loo was a scientist researching how waste could be repurposed in Australia. She began looking at waste from the abalone industry and now she's using her expertise to ...

In the United States, over one-third of food is never eaten, and more food reaches landfills than any other material in the municipal solid waste stream. Wasting food wastes the labor and other ...

Better decisions often begin with a closer look at the information, materials and systems already shaping waste management operations. Two new EREF ...

LISBON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Portugal's government said on Friday it had approved a €2.3 billion ($2.67 billion) investment plan through 2030 to tackle ‌a growing waste disposal crisis, as the country ...

The state environmental quality department has approved a proposed landfill expansion in Avondale. The project, proposed by River Birch, will incorporate the adjacent Greater New Orleans Landfill into ...

Half a century ago, a stretch of Minnesota river country faced a very different future. Plans for landfills and development threatened the Minnesota River bottoms, prompting local residents to push ...