With more than 43 million pounds of donations last fiscal year, Goodwill Ontario Great Lakes faces a tremendous task in processing all those discarded goods. And while many of them can be resold, ...

Everyone I know these days is busy. They put in long hours at work running from one meeting to another, writing reports, engaging in internal and customer-facing work. There isn’t much downtime. Yet, ...

Houston City Council approved an $18 billion capital projects plan Wednesday that only modestly increases spending on solid waste facilities and equipment, even as the city begins charging residents a ...

Waste from Manhattan Project sites will not be allowed into Wayne Disposal Inc., the Van Buren Township hazardous waste site that has been under fire by anti-nuclear activists and leaders of western ...

A VICTORIAN tribunal decision blocking a key Melbourne waste transfer station has thrown the future of the $600 million Maryvale waste-to-energy project in doubt, putting hundreds of Latrobe Valley ...

Scientists are using sunlight to turn plastic waste into clean fuels like hydrogen, offering a breakthrough solution to both pollution and energy challenges. While still in development, the approach ...

"Project Hail Mary" is a modern sci-fi hit that explores how a sun might die and how the human race could find a way to survive in that hypothetical scenario. In the film, fictional microorganisms ...

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 13.2 per cent of food is lost before it reaches retail, representing an estimated USD 400 billion in losses. A further ...

The World Bank Group has released its flagship report, What a Waste 3.0. As the third edition of the series following the 2012 and 2018 reports, it presents a comprehensive overview of the current ...

Some writers focus on moral subtext in their works. Others, an overarching lesson. But for Andy Weir, there’s only one driving approach to creating his bestselling novels: science first. “There’s ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...