Black soldier fly larvae show promise for safe organic waste removal

People and animals create lots of waste that is usually sent to landfills, incinerated, or stored in engineered ponds such as ...

An unimaginable mountain of plastic waste awaits the planet

This was for the first time that the “end-of-life fate” of plastic around the globe, which had ever been manufactured, had been calculated. The authors did so by collating data on production, use, and ...
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Four global policies could eliminate more than 90% of plastic waste and 30% of linked carbon emissions by 2050

A new study determines that just four policies can reduce mismanaged plastic waste -- plastic that isn't recycled or properly disposed of and ends up as pollution -- by 91% and plastic-related ...
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Uncollected waste and open burning leading causes of the plastic pollution crisis

A new study shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. Researchers used A.I. to model waste ...
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Burning or burying? The safer path for Montgomery County’s waste based on the science

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Montgomery County's waste incinerator at Dickerson (white stack and building) also generate electricity. (Photo courtesy EPA Clean ...
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New study in Science finds that just four global policies could eliminate more than 90% of plastic waste and 30% of linked carbon emissions by 2050

Berkeley, CA/Santa Barabara, CA (14 November 2024) — A new study released in Science today determines that just four policies can reduce mismanaged plastic waste — plastic that isn’t recycled or ...