AI is transforming recycling by identifying valuable materials in everyday trash, turning waste into profit while advancing ...

Leading the charge is Benson Abila, whose M-Taka digital app initiative targets hazardous waste in Kisumu's informal ...

The waste sector operates in some of the toughest conditions imaginable, but with informed design, modern material ...

As chip manufacturing scales up, water supply and wastewater treatment systems are under immense pressure. Cutting-edge ...

From ancient sewer systems to the rise of modern sanitation departments, the evolution of resource management has been ...

Fracking’s Forever Problem: Eighth in a series about the gas industry’s radioactive waste. BELLE VERNON, Pa.—Off a back road in the hilly country south of Pittsburgh, a tributary to the Monongahela ...

Raymond Williams trucked millions of pounds of hazardous powder from Mississippi to Berger, Missouri, where it was stored in a warehouse that was regularly broken into. His plan to recycle it never ...

A nuclear production facility in Washington state, called the Hanford site, once forged the plutonium that reshaped the world. Now it’s forging glass; a quiet act of undoing at one of Earth’s most ...

For many people, what happens to donated clothes or bags of recycling waste is a mystery — out of sight, out of mind. But for millions, this waste is a livelihood. All over the world, waste pickers ...

Scientists developed a high-performance hydrogen-production catalyst using lignin, a common waste product from paper and biorefinery processes. The nickel–iron oxide nanoparticles embedded in carbon ...

High-tech digital tools can peer deep within operations and uncover hidden problems—such as people not filling out their freaking paperwork. “‘Forms not ready’ accounted for five hours of downtime. It ...