Regulators have spent tens of millions subsidizing ‘advanced’ recycling facilities, which release carcinogens and give off more greenhouse gases than making plastic from crude oil. Last year, I became ...

A new government study provides a unique, national survey of off site commercial disposal practices, methods, and costs in the major oil and gas producing states of the US. In September 2006, Argonne ...

More than a decade after regulators promised to improve reporting standards for this waste, an Inside Climate News ...

Images of damaged coastlines, oily sheens, containment booms and endangered wildlife are part of every offshore oil spill. And while a response team arrives and the clean up gets underway, researchers ...

BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) - In early 2018, residents of Boise, Idaho were told by city officials that a breakthrough technology could transform their hard-to-recycle plastic waste into low-polluting fuel ...

The effective implementation of IMO garbage regulations (MARPOL Annex V) on ships and in port reception facilities was the main focus of an IMO regional workshop on marine litter for the East Asian ...

Mahoney Environmental, a recycler of used cooking oil headquartered in Joliet, Illinois, announced that it has purchased Waste Oil Recyclers Inc. (WOR), a used oil recycling company based in Modena, ...

As the saying goes, “if it can’t be grown, it has to be mined”– but what about all the metals that have already been wrested from the bosom of the Earth? Once used, they can be recycled– or as this ...