Crustaceans (Crabs, Lobster, Shrimp) are a delicious category of seafood, but their shells can yield a biopolymer with myriad potential uses Overall, our modern food system does a good job of ...

The 10-foot-high pile of what looks like dirt at the back of a lot at the Stonington transfer station doesn’t seem much different from any of the other piles nearby. But it is. And to Dave Aldridge ...

STOCKHOLM — On a chilly autumn morning in the Norra Djurgården district, a woman holding a small garbage bag hustled out of her apartment toward a trio of nondescript metal bins next to her building, ...

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During Monday's budget hearing, the Knox County Commission addressed some financial challenges within its public works ...

How large is the cache of discarded electronics in your home? They were once expensive and cherished items, but now they’re a question-mark for responsible disposal. I’m going to dig into this problem ...

After water, sand is the most exploited natural resource on the planet. However, its extraction from seas, rivers, beaches and quarries has an impact on the environment and surrounding communities. A ...

For close to two decades, local governments and the waste-hauling industry have been making the wrong investments in recycling. One former CEO of a waste-hauling giant admits that the ...

He hopes it will remove enough material from the waste stream going to the trash-to-energy plant in Lisbon that SCRRRA uses to free up space for trash displaced by MIRA’s shutdown. Long-term, it will ...

The 10-foot-high pile of what looks like dirt at the back of a lot at the Stonington transfer station doesn’t seem much different from any of the other piles nearby. But it is. And to Dave Aldridge ...