Incineration is a method of treating waste which involves the combustion of the organic substances found in waste materials. The solid mass of the original waste is reduced by around 80 to 85%, while ...

Garbage incineration plant. Waste incinerator plant with smoking smokestack. The problem of environmental pollution by factories. Increasing waste incineration capacity in European Union’s countries ...

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For decades, Europe has poured millions of tons of its trash into incinerators each year, often ...

Find out how science has helped measure CO₂ from waste to support Net Zero policy. The UK Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is a major climate policy ...

Phillips 66 is Closing its LA Refinery this Month. Neighbors Still Don’t Know if the Company Will Pay for the Cleanup. Arizona Launches Investigation into Proposed Critical Mineral Mine’s Contaminated ...

As part of our immersive field course, we visited Amager Bakke, a waste incinerator in Copenhagen, Denmark. The plant was built in 2016 by Amager Resource Center, a management company owned by the ...

Incineration destroys most dangerous components of medical and other hazardous wastes, but even the hottest furnaces still produce nitrogen oxides, dioxins, and toxic ash. After years of industry ...

Drive down Interstate 95 through Baltimore and you can’t miss the Wheelabrator trash incinerator, its smokestack emblazoned with the city’s name. The Charm City’s single largest source of industrial ...

The petrochemical industry has spent the past few years hard at work lobbying for state-level legislation to promote “chemical recycling,” a controversial process that critics say isn’t really ...

HOLSTEBRO, Denmark — Denmark has a garbage addiction. The country depends on burning vast quantities of garbage to generate power, using highly efficient incinerators that scrub the worst of the ...

When it comes to planet-friendly habits, recycling is by far the UK’s most popular, with 87% of householders claiming they do so regularly, according to the Waste and Resources Action Programme. But ...

Forty years after the devastating Bhopal Gas Tragedy, a major step has been taken to address the hazardous legacy of the disaster. Hundreds of tonnes of toxic waste, left behind at the site, have been ...