The town of Alton says they are struggling with garbage management issues there, as well as in Old Town, and Bradley.

Many human waste disposal locations in Wisconsin do not meet the required rate of movement of liquid through the soil. The Department of Natural Resources requires that a liquid can not move ...

Washington is one step closer to eliminating a major blind spot for potential contaminants in crops grown across the state using human waste as fertilizer. Lawmakers voted unanimously last week to ...

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation ...

NASA's LunaRecycle Challenge, offering a $3 million prize, seeks innovative solutions to transform the 96 bags of human waste left on the Moon by Apollo missions into valuable resources like water ...

and buy equipment to recycle biohazardous plastics waste more efficiently. The facility tests about 30,000 plasma donation samples daily. The 1,750 square feet of new processing space is expected ...

Farmers across Washington already spread thousands of tons of fertilizer from human waste on their crops each year, but there’s a major blind spot when it comes to potential contaminants.

The Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office intercepted eight trash deliveries from three county-owned hospitals over the last year. They found human tissue, blood, prescription drugs including ...

SAN JOSE — The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office is alleging that the South Bay’s three county-run hospitals are improperly disposing medical waste including human flesh ...

A new study from University of Delaware researchers has found that the most significant source of pollution in three inland waterways in Sussex County is human waste. This adds to existing concern ...

A new study suggests that human waste, both treated and untreated, is responsible for the waterway impairment in Delaware watersheds. Delaware has numerous inland waterways with high microbial ...