With the proliferation of smart phones, tablets, notebooks and various other electronic devices in our everyday work and personal lives comes another thing -- e-waste. The average person replaces his ...

A new report from the Center for International Environmental Law has highlighted the environmental impact of the production and incineration of plastic around the world. It forecasts that the plastic ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that over 60 million tons of electronic waste is dumped in landfills every year. In Agbogbloshie, Ghana one of the world’s largest e-waste burial ...

The city of Tshwane is running out of space for landfill sites, it has said. “If no alternative waste disposal sites are developed, the city will run out of landfill space in five years’ time,” said ...

A staggering 70 percent of what Americans trash is actually recyclable. This infographic shows how we end up paying $6.8 billion each year in landfill dumping fees; but we don’t need to. If we just ...

2014 saw a record amount of electronic waste discarded across the globe, according to a report compiled by the United Nations University. 41.8 million tons of refrigerators, televisions, washing ...

WASHINGTON – While the majority of food waste generated by U.S. manufacturers, retailers and wholesalers in 2011 was donated or recycled, approximately 4.1 billion lbs of unused ingredients and ...

08-18-2011 INFOGRAPHIC OF THE DAY Infographic Of The Day: Is School A Waste? Yes! The average American student tosses 67 pounds of food packaging at school annually. Half the kids who live less than a ...

E-waste is one of the fastest growing waste sources in the world, and on average only 25% of household electronics are actually collected and recycled. That’s a staggering statistic – especially when ...

Yes! The average American student tosses 67 pounds of food packaging at school annually. Half the kids who live less than a mile away from school get driven every morning, and if a measly 6% of them ...