Five general principles of waste minimization apply just as well to the smaller-scale operations of research laboratories as they do to industrial settings: Chemicals can be ordered conservatively to ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the ...

As a plastic waste plant violates pollution rules, its owner vies for second location to become a major player in so-called ...

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, ...

Lithium batteries are disposed of with other hazardous materials, not in a regular garbage or recycling bin. A little extra ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alterra's liquefaction plant in Akron, Ohio, uses pyrolysis as its chemical recycling process to manufacture new plastics. The ...

The agency is moving toward resurrecting a proposal from the first Trump administration to ditch Clean Air Act regulations.

For two decades, the federal government has classified the heated chambers used to break down plastic waste as incinerators, ...