Oil and gas production creates a lot of waste in Ohio. Much of it goes to the same landfills as household trash.

Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the first product I’d seen born of what’s being touted as ...

The plastics industry has a major image problem — one they’ve tried to solve by selling the public on plastic recycling. As long as I’ve been alive, Big Oil and the plastics industry have pushed the ...

A new government study provides a unique, national survey of off site commercial disposal practices, methods, and costs in the major oil and gas producing states of the US. In September 2006, Argonne ...

Beneath the tonnage we generate every year lies a toxic story few people see, one that challenges the way we protect our ...

Slicker Recycling welcomes Dr Andreas Weinberger as a shareholder and board member, bringing sector expertise and fresh ...

East Texans are uniting to fight oil waste pits in bucolic areas near the Louisiana line—all run by an operator who’s been ...

As the saying goes, “if it can’t be grown, it has to be mined”– but what about all the metals that have already been wrested from the bosom of the Earth? Once used, they can be recycled– or as this ...

Images of damaged coastlines, oily sheens, containment booms and endangered wildlife are part of every offshore oil spill. And while a response team arrives and the clean up gets underway, researchers ...

The effective implementation of IMO garbage regulations (MARPOL Annex V) on ships and in port reception facilities was the main focus of an IMO regional workshop on marine litter for the East Asian ...