Waste isn’t new, and neither is humanity’s role in creating it. Since the dawn of industrialization, our ability to pollute has scaled alongside our innovations. In 1862, British inventor and ...

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Researchers are now presenting a new and efficient way to recycle metals from spent electric car batteries. The method allows recovery of 100 per cent of the aluminum and 98 per cent of the lithium in ...

Although some may dismiss recycling as unnecessary or inconvenient, Earth Day is a good reminder of why we should care. By reducing our trash output, reusing what we already have, and recycling old ...

This story was originally published by Undark Magazine and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Since the first factories began manufacturing polyester from petroleum in the ...

One person’s scrap may or may not be another person’s treasure, but these days it can be the launching pad to a great career in science, match or technology. In 2012, the Institute of Scrap Recycling ...

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Since the first factories began manufacturing polyester from petroleum in the 1950s, humans have produced an estimated 9.1 billion tons of plastic. Of the waste generated from that plastic, less than ...