Burning plastic waste releases harmful chemicals into the air, including dioxins, furans and mercury, many of which are known carcinogens. That’s why, in some respects, incinerating plastic is thought ...

Do you find yourself tossing away the crusts of your bread? You're not alone, but the scale of bread waste is staggering.

Cities, as the main sources of resource consumption, waste production and greenhouse gas emissions from transport and ...

Paris-headquartered paper and packaging supplier Antalis has launched a material using post-industrial plastic waste.

Food dehydrators, which dry and grind up food into soil-like grounds, have emerged as a way to keep food waste out of the garbage. Here’s how to use them.

New York City's Department of Sanitation has begun what it calls a monumental overhaul of the city's commercial waste industry.