That explains the excitement around a chemical plant that will start commercial operations this year in northeast England. In ...

Like the United States, China holds an unenviable position as a leading producer of trash, a fact that has not gone unnoticed by the Shenzhen Energy Environmental Company (SEE). The waste-management ...

Sewage disposal produces massive amounts of sludge at treatment plants in Japan. When the sludge is incinerated for disposal as industrial waste, it emits a large amount of carbon dioxide (CO2 ...

Japan plans to ease regulations to allow exports of large, disused equipment from nuclear power plants for overseas disposal as a way to reduce the mountains of radioactive waste accumulating at home.