The government must introduce an incineration levy to help tackle the UK’s waste crisis, says an engineer and former government adviser. Recycling expert Richard Waite says a landfill-tax-style tariff ...

When you throw something in the garbage, chances are you never think about it again. But this trash doesn’t just magically disappear. Local governments have to determine how to dispose of the more ...

Incineration is widely used to reduce the volume of municipal solid waste, to reduce the potential infectious properties and volume of medical waste, and to reduce the potential toxicity and volume of ...

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For decades, Europe has poured millions of tons of its trash into ...

Maryland’s two largest health systems have taken contrasting positions on their future dealings with a controversial medical waste incinerator in South Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Health System and ...

Seoul’s waste management system changed overnight on Jan. 1. Trucks that once lined up to dump mixed household waste at the Sudokwon Landfill Site in Incheon, west of the capital, have largely ...