Waste360 asked three waste and recycling experts for their thoughts on what we might expect in the next few years. Here’s ...

The waste crisis is devastating our planet. A lot of the stuff we throw gets dumped in landfills. These massive waste disposal sites are often created by destroying forests or inhabitable lands. For ...

The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers sort their trash so plastic packaging ...

As of July 3, 2023, the process for waste pickup requests transitioned to an online platform: Environmental Health and Safety Assistant (EHSA). EHSA is used to submit waste for chemical, biological, ...

As a growing number of countries use nuclear technology to generate electricity and radioactive material for many other purposes, there is significant progress in the safe and effective management of ...

High-level nuclear waste consists largely of spent fuel from nuclear reactors. Though it makes up a small proportion of overall waste volumes, it accounts for the majority of radioactivity. This most ...

From old cellphones to broken refrigerators and discarded e-cigarettes, global electronic waste has reached record highs and is growing five times faster than rates of recycling – bringing a host of ...

The IAEA is launching a new Coordinated Research Project (CRP) to increase international knowledge and drive progress towards testing deep borehole disposal (DBD) for intermediate and high level ...

California regulators are recommending the state weaken its hazardous waste disposal rules in a bid to dump contaminated soil at some municipal landfills within the state. State officials say revising ...