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waste management

a) Thin film polycrystalline CdTe (Schottky diode) PV cell, glass side (left) and contact side (right), and b) device structure.

Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste into Electricity with New Micro-Battery Design

Infographic: Top 10 Plastic Polluters Ranked. Credit Dr Angeliki Savvantoglou of Bear Bones

Global Plastic Pollution Crisis: Uncollected Waste, Open Burning Major Culprits

Industrial waste red mud raw material (left) and pelletized red mud catalyst (right)

Innovative Catalyst Turns Industrial Waste into Powerful Tool for Fighting Climate Change

Landfill burps from three sites in Florida, such as this one, contain high levels of airborne PFAS, including fluorotelomer alcohols.

Some landfill ‘burps’ contain airborne PFAS, study finds

sludge pond

Toxic Traces Found in Sewage-Based Fertilizers

reactor process

Chinese reactor mineralizes CO2 with help of coal waste

floating plastic bag

Millions of Tons of Plastic Piling Up on Ocean Floors

steel pipes in a warehouse

Transforming Aluminum Production Waste into Green Steel

Cocoa pods, like this one with parts of the husk removed for analyses, could be a useful starting material for flame retardants.

Cocoa pods — a source of chocolate, and potentially, flame retardants

Plastic fork. Pixabay

Nudging food delivery customers to skip the fork drastically cuts plastic waste

Dry toilet in Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for Human Progress, in Paris.

A review of how wealthy societies dispose of their excrement

Fish raised in closed-containment farms can be coupled to plant cutltivation through a production model known as aquaponics. The researchers have now established a system to treat the hitherto ignored solid waste produced by these fish while also generating biogas from fish waste.

Transforming fish farms into biogas producers

Stack of diapers

The house that diapers built

solar panels being installed on a building

Solar industry feeling the heat over disposal of 80 million panels

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