Huge quantities of plastic waste are littering the planet today, stimulating both governments and the public to react in their own ways to quell the threat to global life systems. From 2021, ...

The floating village of Prek Toal in Cambodia is putting the natural filtering power of wetland plants to work by using them to soak up contaminants from their raw sewage. Local floating villages on ...

Researchers at the University of Delaware have transformed discarded corn cobs and other agricultural byproducts into high performance biochar filters that capture both ammonia and tiny plastic ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Upgrades to a wastewater treatment plant in Colorado helped filter out gender-bending chemicals that were affecting fish, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. They said male ...

Your laundry is shedding more than just lint. Washing machine wastewater is one of the top sources of microplastics, with a single unit in a four-person household producing up to 500 grams a year as ...

This March 3, 2014 file photo provided by the North Dakota Health Department shows bags full of radioactive oil filter socks, the nets that strain liquids during the oil production process, piled in ...

Pratt Institute graduate students Charlotte Böhning and Mary Lempres of Studio Doppelgänger created Strøm, a compostable water filters made from food waste. They’re a carbon filter made without fossil ...

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A new process uses bacteria to filter wastewater while creating electricity. Whether wastewater is full of "waste" is a matter of perspective. "Why is it waste?" asked Zhen (Jason) He, professor in ...

BISMARCK, N.D -- Filters used to strain wastewater from oil wells that test positive for low-level radiation are being rejected at municipal landfills in the Bakken Field oil patch. Williston landfill ...