Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Depositphotos.com A growing number of countries are burning garbage, including large amounts of plastic, to generate ...

As the world desperately searches for a way out of its global climate change and plastic pollution crises, nations are increasingly turning to burning municipal waste to make fuel as a solution to ...

Refuse-derived fuel, or RDF, is essentially what the name sounds like: fuel made up of discarded materials, including agricultural waste and plastic trash. Every year, potentially large amounts of ...

The world has a plastics problem. Never mind the horrifying pictures of a seahorse riding a cotton swab or a beached whale found with hundreds of plastic bags in its stomach. Plastic pollution has now ...

Norway-based company Geminor says its first shipment of baled, refuse-derived fuel (RDF) has arrived from Germany to Sweden. In April, a ship carrying 100 tons of baled RDF reached the Copenhagen ...

Geminor, a Norwegian resource management company, has signed a contract to handle its first export of treated waste from Iceland, the company reports in a news release. Geminor has signed a five-year ...

NIT-T researchers are innovating methods to recycle combustibles from landfill waste, promoting sustainability and reducing ...

At the beginning of a lengthy work session Tuesday, the Blue Earth County Board of Commissioners began a discussion on the future of waste management in the county. The county’s current plan to keep ...