Garbage incineration plant. Waste incinerator plant with smoking smokestack. The problem of environmental pollution by factories. Increasing waste incineration capacity in European Union’s countries ...

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For decades, Europe has poured millions of tons of its trash into incinerators each year, often ...

Incineration is a method of treating waste which involves the combustion of the organic substances found in waste materials. The solid mass of the original waste is reduced by around 80 to 85%, while ...

Burning trash has a long history in the United States, and municipal solid waste incinerators have sparked resistance in many places. As an environmental justice scholar who works directly with ...

Factory Farms in Iowa Generate 110 Billion Pounds of Manure Per Year. No One Tracks Where It’s Going. Invasive Scud Is Threatening the Great Lakes. Pollution Might Be Helping to Keep It Back. Rare Win ...

When you throw something in the garbage, chances are you never think about it again. But this trash doesn’t just magically disappear. Local governments have to determine how to dispose of the more ...

Phillips 66 is Closing its LA Refinery this Month. Neighbors Still Don’t Know if the Company Will Pay for the Cleanup. Arizona Launches Investigation into Proposed Critical Mineral Mine’s Contaminated ...

More than 100 million tonnes of municipal solid waste are incinerated worldwide every year 1. However, little is known about the fate of nanomaterials during incineration, even though the presence of ...

When it comes to planet-friendly habits, recycling is by far the UK’s most popular, with 87% of householders claiming they do so regularly, according to the Waste and Resources Action Programme. But ...

Drive down Interstate 95 through Baltimore and you can’t miss the Wheelabrator trash incinerator, its smokestack emblazoned with the city’s name. The Charm City’s single largest source of industrial ...

China’s cities have long struggled with the challenge of being overwhelmed by trash. In early 2020, the country’s largest landfill site — Jiangcungou Landfill in Xi’an, capital of the northwestern ...

New data suggest that commercial incineration of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) doesn’t break down these hardy chemicals. Instead, it spreads them into surrounding areas. Soil and surface ...