Every year, 7.3 billion electronic toys are thrown out around the world, collectively weighing 10 times the mass of New York City's Empire State Building. LED sneakers, power tools, cables and ...

Robots are taking over the dirty work of sorting through our trash and turning it into valuable resources. And not just any robots, but smart robots that use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify ...

How you set up your business can have major consequences, from how easy it is to operate on a day-to-day basis to how you pay your taxes. It can also determine whether you are personally liable if ...

Modern societies generate a great deal of trash, and even in the developed world the waste-handling system struggles to deal with it. Only a disappointing fraction of plastic waste is in fact recycled ...

Trang Nguyen has received funding and is affiliated with the Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre. Patrick O'Connor has received funding from the Australian Research Council, the South ...

It's easy to think that workers care the most about pay—after all, that's typically why they work. But equally important to ...

This small Roanoke composting facility has survived three years of business, when conversations about composting are just beginning in the city and the state.

A primary objective of waste management today is to protect the public and the environment from potentially harmful effects of waste. Some waste materials are normally safe but can become hazardous if ...

About 170 billion cells are in the brain, and as they go about their regular tasks, they produce waste — a lot of it. To stay healthy, the brain needs to wash away all that debris. But how exactly it ...

Food waste is an inherent problem of grocery retailers. A 2024 report by ReFED, a nonprofit focused on tackling food waste, estimates that unsold food at the national retail level results in $42.3 ...

The world has become more invested in reducing its environmental impact and the construction industry has taken its own steps on its journey towards being more environmentally friendly. In the asphalt ...

The Johor Environment Department uncovered an open burning activity involving various types of waste at an engineering factory in the Maju Jaya Industrial Estate here on Wednesday (Dec 24).