Trash piles atop the South Kent County Landfill in Byron, Michigan. The landfill opened in 1986 and will be at capacity in around 5 years. (Photo by Nick Hagen / Planet Detroit) This is your first of ...

A new study explores waste management systems and reveals that achieving zero waste leakage by 2030 is unlikely, potentially jeopardizing related Sustainable Development Goals. The authors emphasize ...

A new study from the University shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. University of Leeds ...

Humans generate a lot of plastic waste—more than 400 million metric tons a year. To bring this fact a bit closer to home, the U.S. produced an average of 0.75 pounds of plastic waste per person each ...

Scientists are advancing a promising solution to two of the world's biggest challenges—plastic pollution and clean energy—by ...

Plastic bags tangled in trees. Takeout containers scattered along roadsides. Bottles clogging streams and waterways and washing up on beaches. Across the United States, plastic waste and pollution ...

From the very beginning of production, vapes are devastating for the environment. Sourcing raw materials for these products is highly resource intensive, requiring not just plastics, but heavy metals, ...

As pollution continues to strain Bali’s environment, organisations are exposing limits of clean-ups. Read more at ...

Untreated livestock waste and medical debris from Bhains Colony are polluting Karachi’s coastal waters, according to local ...