Architectural drawings and interviews offer a close-up look at the logistical side of this strange industrial process.

The Norwegian science institute SINTEF has for more than 15 years gradually been developing its expertise in the field of oxyfuel combustion, which uses pure oxygen instead of air to drive the ...

PFAS, often called "forever chemicals," present in municipal solid waste can survive the high temperatures of waste incineration and continue to spread into the environment via residues from ...

How Does Waste-to-Energy Incineration Work? A modern WtE plant converts municipal waste into energy through a series of integrated processes. Waste is first received, stored, and mixed to create a ...

As waste-to-energy incinerators—a mainstay of garbage disposal in economically advanced countries—find their way into the developing countries of the Asia Pacific, questions are being asked about ...

Frontline municipalities, worker cooperatives, and civil society prove decentralized organic waste systems are ready for immediate scale as climate ...

Maryland’s two largest health systems have taken contrasting positions on their future dealings with a controversial medical waste incinerator in South Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Health System and ...

India’s new Solid Waste Management rules demand strict segregation, yet the Central Pollution Control Board has reclassified ...

In Florida, researchers tested whether ash left over from burning everyday waste could safely sit beneath a working road. They built a full-scale test roadway using municipal solid waste incinerator ...