When the chemicals used to make everyday products like clothes, tires, and electronics are not useful anymore, those chemicals become waste. The facilities that make the products decide what to do ...

Five general principles of waste minimization apply just as well to the smaller-scale operations of research laboratories as they do to industrial settings: Chemicals can be ordered conservatively to ...

The handling and disposal of hazardous materials waste represents a critical responsibility within any scientific or research environment. A robust hazardous materials waste program is not merely a ...

As the adoption of electric vehicles continues to grow, so does the need for the safe and permanent storage of battery materials and industrial chemical waste. Certain waste streams require disposal ...

LIMS chemical inventory tracking automates the management of hazardous materials from the moment a chemical shipment arrives in a laboratory through its storage, use, and final disposal. Laboratories ...

PFAS, often called "forever chemicals," present in municipal solid waste can survive the high temperatures of waste incineration and continue to spread into the environment via residues from ...

Schools in Rwanda are required to report chemical-waste incidents to sector and district authorities within six hours and establish response teams of up to five members under new guidelines aimed at ...

Plastic pollution has rapidly escalated into a global environmental crisis that threatens ecosystem function and human health at an epic scale. Solutions are urgently needed, but while scientists, ...

Turning environmental waste into useful chemical resources could solve many of the inevitable challenges of our growing amounts of discarded plastics, paper and food waste, according to new research.