GENEVA (AP) — An intergovernmental conference has taken early steps toward drawing up an agreement to curb plastic pollution and marine litter around the world, which can choke off sea life, harm food ...

Director of Augusta Environmental Services, Brooks Stayer, has resigned after seven months on the job. No reason was given for his resignation, but his tenure was marked with the continuation of ...

The last piece of piping has been installed to move radioactive waste to the Hanford site vitrification plant, as final preparations are made to begin treating waste for disposal that has been stored ...

The highest natural point in Florida is Britton Hill, which rises 345 feet above sea level in the Panhandle’s Walton County. Now, a man-made mound of garbage in Miami-Dade County might someday rival ...

With the recent installation of equipment at the Solid Waste Management Facility at Savannah River Site, newly generated transuranic waste can now be characterized and certified by the National TRU ...

Joan Cudworth had a burst of show-and-tell inspiration in the summer of 2018. Cudworth, who was then solid waste supervisor for the town of Hollis, came to the select board meeting with a partial ...

The Department of Energy (DOE) has initiated community outreach to facilitate consent-based siting, management of spent nuclear fuel (SNF), and interim storage facility siting. The effort, outlined in ...

Globally, tens of millions of metric tonnes of plastic and solid waste are generated each year – 10 times more than a century ago, according to World Bank researchers. Malaysia is no exception. Waste ...

The city is placing extra litter bins throughout downtown Milwaukee, and crews stand ready to tend to any additional needs. But talking trash with people responsible for putting the Republican ...

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, ...

This Earth Day – an event first celebrated on April 22, 1970 in the United States and now a globally coordinated event in more than 193 countries – commit yourself to taking an action around food ...