Municipal Solid Waste

Environmental historian Adam Rome considers the destructive history of fashion and style.

By Altain J. Chombe Special to The Digest A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs On a crisp autumn morning in 1995, two ambitious young professionals began their first day at a great Fortune 100 oil company. Both were filled with determination, eager to carve out a future in the evolving world of energy. One saw opportunity […]

Sustainable aviation fuel, combined with efficiency improvements, emissions mitigation policies, and other measures, could enable Latin America's aviation sector to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, according to an MIT CS3 Special Report.

In Washington, the US Department of Energy's Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and Vehicle Technologies Office announced a total of $12.9 million in support of 2 different projects supporting waste-to-energy and advanced biofuels,. In all, nine waste-to-energy projects picked up 6.9 million in support, and three advanced biofuels projects received support totaling $6.0 million. Advanced biofuels Funded through […]

The United States has made almost no progress in closing racial health disparities despite promises, research shows. The government, some critics argue, is often the underlying culprit.

In Illinois, Development Specialists (DSI) is marketing for sale the assets of Fulcrum Sierra BioFuels, LLC and Fulcrum BioEnergy. Fulcrum is a clean energy company in the renewable fuels sector, focusing on converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into low-carbon transportation fuels, including sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel. Fulcrum's proprietary process combines gasification and Fischer-Tropsch […]

Delivery of humanitarian aid in Gaza remains a difficult and frustrating task for UN and partner agencies as the conflict there grinds on amid intense civilian suffering.

A new study from GNS Science marks a significant step in the assessment of environmental contamination in Aotearoa New Zealand's capital.

Step into a supermarket and you will likely see plenty of plastic net packaging, conveniently bagging together onions, oranges, limes or lemons. That might...

Holland's anaerobic digestor started running at the end of 2023.

The aviation industry is getting ready to embrace fuel produced by fermentation

A team of researchers is working to develop science-based design and operation principles informed by TEA/LCA that result in predictable, reliable, and scalable performance of preprocessing unit operations. The comminution and fractionation manuals that industry needs will contain design principles for various working envelopes of CMAs and critical process parameters (CPPs) for corn stover, forest […]

Mar. 12—Palestine's annual Citywide Spring Cleanup Day has been scheduled from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 16. "Let's come together as a community to...

During the manufacturing process, many medical devices or equipment for use on humans must be sterilized according to recognized standards. This includes gowns, surgical drapes, syringes and implantable medical devices. In fact, the United States has a huge medical device sterilization industry, regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The industry is expected to grow considerably in the coming years.

"There is not a house in this community that has not had a person who has suffered from some type of cancer or kidney failure."

Household waste increases by more than 25% from Thanksgiving to New Year's, according to the Clean Air Partnership.

Danica Sun, 17, and other young activists have been part of a group pushing for a climate literacy bill in the Illinois General Assembly.

In defense of rats, Jenny Kendler reminds us that we're all in this together. Rats deserve empathy and ethical treatment.

Methane, a greenhouse gas that's more powerful than carbon dioxide over its first 20 years in the atmosphere, is released from landfills by decomposing organic material like food scraps, cardboard, and yard trimmings.

/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today, the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency (UCRRA) has officially joined the Empire State Purchasing Group to help streamline...