Broad adoption of composting, recycling, and production cuts could help reduce waste-related emissions by 84 percent, according to a new report from the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives ...

Leading industry organisations today issued a joint statement highlighting the substantial and positive contribution the cement industry can make to addressing the urgent global challenge of ...

Kay Masterson has always wanted to make her Boston-area restaurant more sustainable, partnering with an organic farm to get some vegetables close by and offering reusable containers for customers’ ...

As the world’s largest developing economy, China has been rapidly increasing urban construction over the past four decades. As a result, a significant amount of construction and demolition (C&D) waste ...

Burning trash has a long history in the United States, and municipal solid waste incinerators have sparked resistance in many places. As an environmental justice scholar who works directly with ...

Houston-based Waste Management began reporting its sustainability and environmental initiatives in 1992, around the same time the refuse giant piloted its first natural gas garbage truck. Since then, ...

New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation can slash landfill methane emissions 46% by 2050 by making practical ...

Your neighborhood's Waste Management garbage truck might not look different, but it might soon sound different – or rather, you might not hear it at all. The company is transitioning from ...

Lawmakers are considering a bill that would tighten restrictions on the burning of medical waste after residents in central Connecticut raised concerns about a local waste facility. Senate Bill 80 ...