A common explanation for why waste management sometimes fails is that carelessness breeds more carelessness. Now, research ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Consumers trashed enough clothing last year—120 million metric tons, to be exact—to fill over 200 Olympic stadiums. “Open dumping adds another layer of risk,” the report reads, “releasing harmful ...

Four hundred million tons of toxic waste are produced each year. Just imagine that for a moment — that’s 70 Great Pyramids of Giza combined. It’s not something most of us take into account when ...

Unsafe disposal of medical waste in the city is raising health concerns, with hazardous hospital material reportedly dumped, ...

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 ...

In the 1940s, mother of three Valerie Hunter-Gordon from England was fed up with washing cloth nappies.She then used cotton wool and old parachutes to design the world's first disposable nappy.The ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s first permanent depository for nuclear fuel waste opens later this ...