Organizations conduct waste audits to minimize the organization's waste impact on the environment. Organizations conduct waste audits voluntarily and as mandated by local, state and federal laws.

Waste. If there’s one thing every businessperson can agree on, it’s that waste is bad. It’s created by inefficient, poorly designed business processes and takes many forms — hours spent doing ...

A research team has developed a novel wastewater treatment system that can effectively remove conventional pollutants, and recover valuable resources such as phosphorus and organic materials. This ...

Researchers at the University of Adelaide have demonstrated a solar-driven photoreforming process that converts plastic waste into hydrogen and other valuable chemicals. The method uses ...

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment image: Researchers Jeremy Guest, right, and Yalin Li led a team at the Center for Advanced Bioenergy ...

Wastewater from biorefineries that convert plants into fuel is full of organic materials that cannot be efficiently treated with conventional wastewater systems, making it costly and energy-intensive ...