January brings sticker shock on your credit cards, and maybe that bathroom scale, from all that holiday splurging on gifts and entertainment, nice meals and parties, now that we can go out again after ...

Four hundred million tons of toxic waste are produced each year. Just imagine that for a moment — that’s 70 Great Pyramids of Giza combined. It’s not something most of us take into account when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK CITY, New York -- As food waste continues to pile up in landfills across the U.S., composting is gaining traction as more ...

Renewable energy waste is a growing problem due to the increasing use of solar panels and wind turbines. Improper disposal of renewable energy equipment can lead to environmental and health problems.

In a new report released this week, the United Nations said the amount of electronics waste worldwide is growing even as efforts to recycle it may be falling even further behind targets. The Global ...

When you throw something in the garbage, chances are you never think about it again. But this trash doesn’t just magically disappear. Local governments have to determine how to dispose of the more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Produce section of a Walmart supercenter - Adam McCullough/Shutterstock Walmart is one of the world's largest retailers and with ...

One bad apple may not spoil the whole bunch, but when it comes to distributing food, a lot of good goes out with the bad. Now, researchers from Princeton University and Microsoft Research have ...

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Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. At Treehugger, we often talk about perfection being the ...

There’s one thing every planned permanent repository for spent nuclear fuel has in common: They’re all underground mines. Like any mine, a mined repository for nuclear waste is a complex feat of ...

In the 1940s, mother of three Valerie Hunter-Gordon from England was fed up with washing cloth nappies.She then used cotton wool and old parachutes to design the world's first disposable nappy.The ...