Urease is one of the most consequential enzymes in the microbial world. By hydrolyzing urea into ammonia and carbon dioxide, ...

Researchers engineered an enzyme that can attack polyurethane shoe foam, one of the hardest plastics to recycle.

Our cells have their own internal "garbage collection" system that gathers up everything that is defective, worn out or ...

A compost bacterium produced CCPUR1, the strongest enzyme yet found for breaking down polyurethane and nylon plastic.

Researchers from Aarhus University and the Danish Technological Institute have taken a new approach in the search for enzymes capable of breaking down some of the most difficult types of plastic to ...

LISBON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Portugal's government said on Friday it had approved a €2.3 billion ($2.67 billion) investment plan through 2030 to tackle ‌a growing waste disposal crisis, as the country ...

Plastics remanufacturing is the industry everyone wishes they’d gotten into earlier, with McKinsey seeing as much as $75 billion in economic opportunity by 2035 for technologies capable of putting the ...

Simi Valley residents say odors from a landfill receiving rotten food from the burned-out Boyle Heights warehouse fire are worsening. SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (KABC) -- Residents in the Big Sky community ...

CONAKRY, Guinea — A mountainous heap of refuse collapsed at the largest landfill in Guinea’s capital of Conakry early Sunday, killing 30 people, according to the central government. Authorities said ...

One winter’s day in 2023, Shoosmith Landfill began to melt down. Underground temperatures in a section of the recently closed municipal waste site near Richmond, Virginia, reached 194F, 34% higher ...

Maurice Parms was arrested on June 20 and charged in connection with the murder of Ja’Derrius Minnieweather, who was reported missing on June 5 GoFundMe The remains of Ja’Derrius Minnieweather, a ...

In the United States, we brush more than 14 million gallons of toothpaste on our teeth every single year. That's roughly four to six tubes a person. When consumers are finished with the tube, research ...