Gut bacteria from a worm can degrade plastic Plastic is well-known for sticking around in the environment for years without breaking down, contributing significantly to litter and landfills.... Read more
Diverting just a portion of the world’s food waste to waste-to-energy systems could free up large amounts of landfill space while powering vehicles and heating homes Food waste is inde... Read more
Every bit of the load-bearing structure is reusable for new building blocks. The ERO Concrete Recycling Robot was designed to efficiently disassemble concrete structures without any waste, d... Read more
The technique has significant potential Every year, millions of tons of environmentally harmful ash is produced worldwide, and is mostly dumped in landfill sites or, in some countries, used... Read more
The idea struck me during a meeting. While thoughts of waste don’t routinely course through my brain, trash was the subject matter at a meeting of Duke’s Campus Sustainabi... Read more
Light on Landfills Hickory Ridge landfill outside of Atlanta, GA, is full. Like most landfills that reach capacity, it was capped to contain its noxious mix of debris that will slowly degrad... Read more
Cheap-to-produce edutainment kit modules paired up with discarded but functional tech Electronic waste is a huge global problem, and its often devastating impact on our environment is not go... Read more
Potentially pays for itself in less than six years FORT BENNING, Ga. — Army, government and private industry leaders came together last week to celebrate the startup of a system... Read more
It’s always a bummer when you take something like a computer or TV out of its box, and realize that all that Styrofoam is just going to end up in the landfill. Although it can be recycled, d... Read more