As more countries ban waste imports, plastic waste generators like the US will need to find better solutions. A few states ...

Ahead of World No Tobacco Day May 31, the American Thoracic Society and our Forum of International Respiratory Societies ...

Biomedical waste must be segregated and disposed of only through authorised treatment facilities. Open dumping of such waste ...

More than 8 billion tons of plastic waste clog the planet. If stacked within Chicago’s Millennium Park, plastic dumped into ...

Waste management officials in Minnesota were forced to abruptly halt operations on Monday, Dec. 15, according to KSTP, after a truck dropped off extremely hazardous material. Ramsey/Washington ...

ACERRA – Pope Leo XIV on Saturday greeted one by one families who lost loved ones to illegal toxic dumping in an area near ...

Air pollution has been linked to a host of poor health outcomes, from respiratory infections to suicide risk. Now, new research in the Wasatch Front of Utah—which occasionally experiences the worst ...

The EREF report aims to highlight and contextualize available data on facilities that incinerate hospital, medical, and infectious waste, noting that some “academic and public discourse” may still ...

Belching smoke from a new plastic waste processing plant in central Ohio has stirred opposition to an even larger “chemical recycling” factory planned for Arizona by the same company. The Freepoint ...

The City of Natchez is reminding residents to be cautious when recycling after medical waste was found in a residential recycling bin last week, resulting in the entire load of recyclables being ...

WOODBURY, N.J. (WPVI) -- Medical waste, including syringes, vaccine vials and urine samples, was removed from along Woodbury Creek in Woodbury, New Jersey, after Action News contacted the health care ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency proposed Friday to weaken air pollution limits on a chemical used to sterilize medical equipment, a move that would reverse a Biden administration ...