Recycling biotechnology byproducts can enhance soil health while reducing carbon emissions and maintaining crop yields. According to the research findings, the addition of SMB provided similar crop ...

Most people walk past their lawn trimmings, fallen leaves, and garden debris without a second thought. That pile of waste by ...

Scientists are developing computer models that show how radioactive waste interacts with soil and sediments, shedding light on waste disposal and how to keep contamination away from drinking water.

Tailings, the waste left after extracting precious and critical minerals, often contain harmful chemicals and heavy metals that can pollute soil, water, and even crops. There are over 1,800 tailings ...

A new type of public toilet is helping people in Haiti make fertilizer from human waste, a project that may someday revive the country's degraded farmland, curb disease, and create jobs. Since 2006 ...

Cotton Australia is working on a new way of dealing with textile waste: burying it. Not in a landfill but in the very same field the fiber might have come from to begin with. The organization is about ...

Imagine that one-third of cars manufactured by Ford or GM were never even driven once, but instead were left to rust and ended up in landfills. This exact situation is true today in agriculture, where ...

CSIR laboratory for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology has developed a biomedical waste conversion rig that can disinfect pathogenic biomedical waste and will covert them into soil additives.

Why pay to throw away leaves, grass clippings, kitchen scraps and other household organic waste when you could turn it into superb soil? That’s the idea of composting – improving your lousy soil while ...