Turning environmental waste into useful chemical resources could solve many of the inevitable challenges of our growing ...

Kelsie Alling writes, Missoula’s new Household Chemical Disposal Facility is a big step forward in protecting both our health ...

Most plastic waste, ... Hocevar, with Greenpeace, said he was encouraged to see “some positive signs from the EPA” regarding chemical recycling, ...

As of July 3, 2023, the process for waste pickup requests transitioned to an online platform: Environmental Health and Safety Assistant (EHSA). EHSA is used to submit waste for chemical, biological, ...

These Five Companies Said They’d Curb Plastic Waste. They Made It Much Worse. New data shows the oil and chemical firms produced 1,000 times more than they cleaned up.

In a decisive move to tackle the growing environmental and public health risks posed by chemicals and poor waste handling, the Federal Government has pledged to strengthen its capacity in chemical ...

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 day in 2010, which is equivalent in weight to an unopened can of soda ...

But records show that more than 1,000 pounds of mercury and 2,500 cubic yards of chemical wastes were already buried. Town data showed that roughly 500 people still lived within a mile of the site.

A two-month study at Hanford’s Waste Treatment Plant is testing emission controls on a new stack, using chemical simulants to ensure safety and compliance before treating radioactive waste. The ...