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Like many areas of Asia and the Pacific, rural areas of China face significant challenges related to solid waste, or the discarded materials generated by human activities. This includes everyday items ...

A new Yale-led study indicates that we’re disposing of more than twice as much solid waste as we thought we were. The Yale researchers use a more direct method based on numbers reported by the ...

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) is the public law in the United States that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the authority to control hazardous and non-hazardous solid ...

For decades, waste was seen as an endpoint — something to be burned or buried. Today, waste is considered an overlooked ...

Even small businesses face the problem of generating hazardous waste. Everything from solvents or oils used in your manufacturing process to pesticides and other commercial chemicals can result in ...