UCR chemical engineering researchers have completed construction of a pilot biomass processing facility that transforms ...

Raleigh's new Bioenergy Recovery Project converts waste to renewable gas, earning EPA credits to fund water and sewer ...

It may sound like the stuff of sci-fi movies, but diverting food waste from the landfill and converting it into electricity has become a real thing. William Brangham visited Ben & Jerry’s Vermont ice ...

A Cornell-led research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics waste, then using the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon dioxide (CO 2), a greenhouse ...

The half-eaten burgers and fries and other food waste tossed by spectators at this week’s 3M Open in Blaine are not going to a landfill. Instead, they will go to Turtle Lake, Wis., and into a newly ...

Hundreds of thousands of tons of trash moves through the Ramsey/Washington Recycling and Energy Center each year. But the goal is to keep as much of it as possible away from the landfill. "We have ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — Located in the heart of Auburn ...

Manaus is one of the top generators of solid waste among Brazil’s state capitals, with an average of 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) of garbage per resident every day. The problem affects all of Amazonas ...

SAN DIEGO — Inside a University of San Diego engineering lab, undergraduate students are brewing up an unexpected solution to rising gas prices: turning craft beer waste into biofuel. The innovative ...