“Disposal is the carnival room of smoke and mirrors with the PFAS issue right now,” said Bennington College professor David Bond. Data collected by EPA indicates “forever chemicals” are widespread in ...

When you throw something in the garbage, chances are you never think about it again. But this trash doesn’t just magically disappear. Local governments have to determine how to dispose of the more ...

Garbage incineration plant. Waste incinerator plant with smoking smokestack. The problem of environmental pollution by factories. Increasing waste incineration capacity in European Union’s countries ...

Healthcare waste management (HCWM) has become a major challenge as healthcare becomes more sophisticated, population size increases and healthcare facilities expand. All these factors demand the use ...

As part of our immersive field course, we visited Amager Bakke, a waste incinerator in Copenhagen, Denmark. The plant was built in 2016 by Amager Resource Center, a management company owned by the ...

An environmental scientist, who led medical waste treatment during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, says that COVID-19 is one of the "easiest pathogens to destroy" and hospitals need not resort ...

Household collection of biomedical waste within the Kochi city limits is only slowly returning to normalcy after the Corporation accumulated a backlog of nearly 60 tonnes after one of the two ...

Researchers have developed new methods to solve a major source of future waste from the automotive, aerospace and renewable industries. It's estimated that by 2030 carbon and glass fibre composites ...