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Plastic pellets on a beach.

Tech

1 billion plastic pellets from English port spill reach beaches 30 miles away

A woman in a laboratory using equipment with rows of sample bottles in the foreground.

Tech

Scottish Water becomes first utility to recycle contaminated lab plastics on-site

A teacher talking about mold in their classroom.

Home

Teacher's viral video shows classroom coated in mold after school reportedly cut AC over summer

Three fire trucks parked on the street.

Business

London recycling facility left severely damaged after 55 tons of waste catch fire

Vegetables on sale at a grocery store.

Food

UK stops short of supermarket edible-food ban as petition nears 15,000 signatures

The Supreme Court of India building.

Home

India's Supreme Court says 'entitled' solid-waste mindset demands infrastructure overhaul

Brazil's Amazon River basin.

Tech

In Brazil, even a remote Amazon park has microplastics in 8 of 10 fish

A manhole surrounded by various types of debris and gloves on the grass.

Tech

'Your toilet is not a trash can': Texas officials say wipes remain top cause of sewer backups, alongside socks, toys, and T-shirts

A person wades through flooded streets while rescuing fish.

Outdoors

Video shows Ohio residents rescuing fish from the middle of a flooded street

A pink laser beam directed at a textured surface featuring a grid pattern.

Tech

Atomic 'photocopier' could speed the push for smaller, tougher quantum devices

Tech

Scientists turn plastic bottles into vanilla cookies for emergency space rations

Lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries.

Tech

Global LFP battery growth is creating a recycling problem the industry wasn't built to solve