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Apr. 13, 2021 —Living near a hazardous waste or Superfund site could cut your life short by about a year, according to a new study. The study is the first nationwide review of all hazardous waste sites and not just ...
Dec. 20, 2022 —Consumers told that not recycling their batteries 'risked polluting the equivalent of 140 Olympic swimming pools every year' were more likely to participate in an electronic waste recycling ...
Jan. 18, 2023 —A new computational system uses satellite data to identify sites on land where people dispose of waste, providing a new tool to monitor waste and revealing sites that may leak plastic into ...
June 9, 2022 —Researchers identify why the fast fashion business model creates waste and whether regulators can establish incentives for consumers and manufacturers are steps to reducing ...
Dec. 13, 2021 —Plastics found in electronic waste (e-waste) are rarely recycled due to their complex composition and hazardous additives, but scientists have now developed a new use for them -- by repurposing them ...
Aug. 17, 2022 —的图片damaged coastlines, oily sheens, containment booms and endangered wildlife are part of every offshore oil spill. And while a response team arrives and the clean up gets underway, ...
Oct. 23, 2020 —A team of leading environmental experts have warned that the current war on plastic is detracting from the bigger threats to the ...
May 27, 2021 —For decades, wealthy nations have transported plastic trash, and its environmental problems, to poorer countries, but researchers have found a potential bright side to this seemingly unequal trade: ...
Aug. 26, 2020 —Scientists have developed a novel method of using fruit peel waste to extract and reuse precious metals from spent lithium-ion batteries in order to create new batteries. The scientists say that ...
Dec. 16, 2020 —Incineration of solid waste produces millions of tons of waste fly ash in Europe each year, that most commonly ends up in landfill. But this ash often contains significant amounts of precious metals, ...