Waste incineration remains a critical component of integrated waste management, offering significant volume reduction and energy recovery. However, the high temperatures and complex chemistry within ...

The European Union plans to include waste incineration plants in its emissions trading system, which has triggered ...

Burning trash has a long history in the United States, and municipal solid waste incinerators have sparked resistance in many places. As an environmental justice scholar who works directly with ...

U.S. cities have been burning municipal solid waste since the 1880s. For the first century, it was a way to get rid of trash. Today advocates have rebranded it as an environmentally friendly energy ...

As waste-to-energy incinerators—a mainstay of garbage disposal in economically advanced countries—find their way into the developing countries of the Asia Pacific, questions are being asked about ...

A new study finds that surface soil in parks and playgrounds built on former waste incineration and ash disposal sites may contain levels of lead exceeding EPA safety standards for areas where ...

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 ...

Sabah’s fight against plastic pollution took a step forward after a four-month zero waste community project at a village in Tuaran wrapped up, providing villagers with recycling skills and a massive ...