On Friday, June 20, 2025, in the Uruguayan seaside city of Punta del Este, governments from across the world agreed to establish the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the ...

The agency is moving toward resurrecting a proposal from the first Trump administration to ditch Clean Air Act regulations.

Human and animal waste can replace many fertilizers if managed better and used closer to farms, improving farming systems.

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Humans generate a lot of plastic waste—more than 400 million metric tons a year. To bring this fact a bit closer to home, the U.S. produced an average of 0.75 pounds of plastic waste per person each ...

International chemicals negotiators began a biennial meeting today in Geneva, Switzerland, to decide how the global community should deal with certain toxic chemicals, including pesticides and some ...

The Ocean Recovery Alliance, headquartered in Hong Kong, has released “Towards Circular Plastics: Assessing the Impact of Recycling Technologies in Tackling Plastic Pollution,” a report that assesses ...

A team of researchers has found a way to transform one of the world’s most dangerous chemicals into a valuable ingredient for medicines, offering new hope for both environmental cleanup and ...

Purdue University is committed to preserving a balance between protecting the health of people and the environment, while accommodating increasingly sophisticated and productive research operations.

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