Cleanup of areas destroyed in the Maui wildfires could end up being one of the most complex to date, federal officials said, given the island’s significant cultural sites, its rich history including a royal residence and possibly remains of people who died in the disaster. The first stage of cleanup started in late August, with […]
BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—Human waste leaking from a tractor trailer on a Connecticut highway caused crashes including one involving two state police cruisers as vehicles spun out of control, authorities said. No major injuries were reported in Monday night’s mayhem on Interstate 95 in Bridgeport. Troopers arrested the truck driver on several charges, alleging he knew there […]
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has concluded that Japan’s plans to release radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean are consistent with international safety standards. In a report published on July 4 (pdf), the IAEA, a United Nations body, said that the findings followed a comprehensive assessment and safety review of […]
Hundreds of millions of American tax dollars went to recipients in China and Russia in recent years without being properly tracked by the federal government, including a grant that enabled a state-run Russian lab to test cats on treadmills, according to Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa). Ernst and her staff investigators, working with auditors at the […]
Department of the Treasury Acting Inspector General Richard Delmar; Small Business Administration Deputy Inspector General Shelden Shoemaker; and Department of Labor Inspector General Larry Turner testify at 2:00 p.m. ET on March 9 to a hearing held by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee Government Operations and the Federal Workforce Subcommittee on “Waste, Fraud, and […]
An abundance of garbage and other kinds of waste ends up in the Yarra river in Melbourne, Australia. One fisherman has taken it upon himself to help clean things up, fishing for metal waste in the city’s waterways with a magnet.
Russian forces have destroyed a laboratory at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and seized highly radioactive samples, according to Ukrainian officials. The Ukrainian state agency responsible for the Chernobyl exclusion zone said in a statement Tuesday that Russian forces “looted and destroyed” the lab, which was opened in 2015 with support from the European Union […]
Official records show the shocking scale of waste in the Department for Health and Social Care. It has written off nearly 9 billion pounds ($12 billion) that it spent on personal protective equipment (PPE). Over 1 billion pounds was wasted on useless items or unused items.
SAN DIEGO—Marine scientists say they have found what they believe to be more than 25,000 barrels that possibly contain DDT dumped off the Southern California coast near Catalina Island, where a massive underwater toxic waste site dating back to World War II has long been suspected. The 27,345 “barrel-like” objects were captured in high-resolution images […]
UNICEF is boosting the capacity of the water treatment plant in Sanaa, Yemen, to stop cholera. It is also helping local hospitals fight the disease. A recent cholera outbreak has killed nearly 200 people. It is the worst outbreak since the start of the two-year war. In two years, more than 300 have died, out […]
The world’s largest beach cleanup continues on May 27. Volunteers have cleaned about 500,000 tons of trash off Mumbai’s Versova beach in an 85-week operation. The 1.5 mile (2.5 km) stretch of the beach used to be among the dirtiest in Mumbai. Today, it has a whole new look. Most of the trash is gone, […]
An innovative way to clean plastic waste in the oceans. Dutch company The Ocean Cleanup will use floating barriers which drift along the water’s surface collecting plastic. Sea life can safely pass beneath the barriers. “Instead of going after the plastic we let the plastic come to us, saving time, energy and costs. By using […]
The People’s Fridge is public refrigerator in Brixton, South London, where people leave excess edible perishables and other people who can use them take them—free of charge. The People‘s Fridge was started by a group of food activists. Food waste is a huge issue in the U.K. An estimated $21 billion is discarded each year. […]
No more wasting toilet paper. Beijing parks are putting in automatic toilet paper dispensers that use facial recognition technology. It rolls out about 27 inches of paper for each person. The same person has to wait nine minutes for another round. The dispenser can tell when it’s a new person. It’s already in use in […]
An Israeli company has created a family-sized biogas system which converts any organic waste into clean cooking gas, and liquid plant fertilizer for the garden. The system, HomeBiogas is affordable and easy to assemble. What is more amazing about this system is it turns the leftovers to produce enough gas for cooking three meals. With […]
