Researchers say just four policies could cut plastic pollution 90 percent by 2050. With no action, plastic waste could nearly ...

Cornell researchers have developed an elegant and sustainable way to clean up waterways: reusing one waste product ... in the ...

Researchers found evidence that listeria, E. coli, norovirus, and adenovirus — pathogens that likely hitched a ride on plastic fragments — can still be detected in treated water. In unrelated news, ...

That has a high impact on the environment. Waste management process involves the collection, transportation, disposal, and recycling of waste materials. Failure in proper management leads to landfills ...

A new art work at Science Gallery London explores the history, engineering, geography and science of human waste in the ...

After thousands of mysterious dark, sticky balls washed up on shorelines in Sydney, Australia in October – leading to beach ...

Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have developed a novel nanotechnology-based solution for the ...

A new study suggests that human waste, both treated and untreated, is responsible for the waterway impairment in Delaware watersheds.

Delaware has numerous inland waterways with high microbial impairment from unknown sources. Now, a new study suggests that ...

The golf-ball-size debris that closed beaches across the Australian city wasn't tar balls as first thought. It was made up of decomposed cooking oils, hair and food waste.

Thousands of mysterious blobs that closed several Sydney beaches last month have been revealed to contain materials ...

Wastewater treatment fails to kill several human pathogens when they hide out on microplastics in the water, according to a new study.