If you haven’t started your composting journey, consider this your sign to begin. Turning your kitchen scraps and backyard ...

A new Research Group at the University of Oldenburg in Germany aims to make bioplastics out of organic waste. Their goal: ...

They believe such plastics can be used in medical products, car components, insulation and packaging. The plan is to develop ...

Glass isn't as easy to recycle as we might think, so we need as many ways to turn it into new products as we can devise. Researchers at the University of Portsmouth have developed a way to use ...

Carrot side streams often end up as waste. Using such material for protein production reduces disposal problems and saves resources. No extra farmland or water becomes necessary. Production happens ...

Researchers have found that concrete can be made 30% stronger by replacing a percentage of sand with spent coffee grounds, an organic waste product produced in huge amounts that usually ends up in ...

Jianzhuang Xiao is a professor of recycled concrete materials and structures at Tongji University, Shanghai, China, and a vice-president at Guangxi University, Nanning, China. Zongjin Li is a ...

It’s in our bodies: our lung tissue, our blood and in the dark, tarry first defecation of newborns. It’s been discovered in the deepest recesses of the ocean and in the snow of pristine alpine peaks ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- Why should miners go to all the trouble of digging up coal only to have a quarter of it thrown away? That's the question driving Illinois researchers trying to turn coal waste ...

BRUSSELS — Soda bottles labeled as “made with recycled plastic” could soon have more virgin plastic than you might think, ...