Each year, people around the world dump a staggering 2.12 billion tons of waste. One of the biggest reasons for this astounding amount of waste is that human beings trash approximately 99% of ...

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How can electronic waste, also known as e-waste, be recycled without resulting in negative environmental impacts that are often produced with traditional e-waste recycling methods? This is what a ...

The global plastic waste crisis is reaching a tipping point. Each year, between 350 and 450 million tons of plastic waste are generated, with less than 10% being effectively recycled. The rest ends up ...

A proposed US ban on the export of electronics waste won't accomplish its goal of stopping crude methods of recycling "e-waste" -- especially junked computers -- that are resulting in environmental ...

Before a plastic water bottle is tossed into the garbage, the person doing the tossing might want to ask if that bottle can be turned into something else. The answer is, yes. Recycling, by definition, ...

Recycling company Anmet uses decommissioned wind turbine blades as load-bearing structural supports for pedestrian bridges (shown here) and other infrastructure products. Photo Credit: Anmet Many ...

Each year, people around the world dump a staggering 2.12 billion tons of waste. One of the biggest reasons for this astounding amount of waste is that human beings trash approximately 99% of ...