The Hanford nuclear site's massive vitrification plant could begin treating waste for disposal as soon as this summer.

For years, the plastic industry’s narrative about recycling has been falling apart. Research and media investigations have revealed that it doesn’t make economic sense, and that petrochemical ...

[Photo: Getty Images] Chemical plants need consistency, so it’s easier to use plastic that hasn’t been gunked up by consumer use, Jenkins explained. But plastic waste that had never been ...

The answer is complex. Film photography produces a fair amount of waste. Film rolls, light-protecting canisters, unwanted negative strips, and many printed photos are often thrown away. Chemical waste ...

Plastic waste scavenged from river channels and dump sites in Kenya. Tony Karuma / AFP via Getty Images The DOE’s chemical recycling initiatives are part of a long series of government attempts ...

The waste is left from chemically processing uranium fuel irradiated in Hanford reactors to produce nearly two-thirds of the ...

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Thursday allowed the state government to dispose of the chemical waste from the defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal. Scientists at the Council of Scientific ...

the Federal Government has pledged to strengthen its capacity in chemical and waste management for effective implementation of international conventions on chemicals. The Federal Government made ...

Humans generate a lot of plastic waste—more than 400 million metric tons a year. To bring this fact a bit closer to home, the U.S. produced an average of 0.75 pounds of plastic waste per person ...