Officials in southeastern Michigan were angry when a landfill and deep-injection wells near Detroit received contaminated soils and liquids from a train derailment in East Palestine. Resistance also ...
The world is struggling to deal with ever-growing quantities of waste. A new World Bank Group report, What a Waste 3.0, shows that more than 2.6 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste (which includes ...
A new World Bank report warns that global waste is rising rapidly and could reach nearly 3.9 billion tonnes by 2050, with poor management causing major environmental and health risks. However, with ...
It’s cheaper and quicker to dump waste illegally. At one location, it’s used to support collapsing land – a practice called ...
Four hundred million tons of toxic waste are produced each year. Just imagine that for a moment — that’s 70 Great Pyramids of Giza combined. It’s not something most of us take into account when ...