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Food waste levels are shocking but no-one is doing more to reduce them than the packaging industry, reports packaging industry body Incpen. Supermarkets and their suppliers are reducing packaging but, more importantly they are making sure they use enough packaging to help stop food waste which is a much bigger …

Methods used to recycle electronic waste exported to China "significantly" increase the amount of the toxin dioxin in women of child-bearing age and in breast-fed babies, According to EarthTimes, Chinese scientists estimated that the intake of dioxin in breast-fed babies in Taizhou in eastern China, where more than 2.2 million …

A new brochure from the European Environment Agency (EEA) presents the EEA‘‘s new country factsheets on waste policies and trends across the EU-25, and summarises some patterns in approaches to waste management that are highlighted by the factsheets. Achieving effective policy outcomes: the importance of tailoring waste management policies to …

With Canadians disposing of over 25 million tonnes of waste to landfills each year, many municipalities are handing over money to companies that specialize in turning municipal solid waste (MSW) into energy. Globe-Net reports that through ingenuity, many waste-to-energy technologies have been developed for this waste and it has become …

Few arguments are more dangerous than the ones that “feel” right but can’t be justified. (Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man, 1981)

Few arguments are more dangerous than the ones that “feel” right but can’t be justified. (Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man, 1981)

Few arguments are more dangerous than the ones that “feel” right but can’t be justified. (Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man, 1981)

Few arguments are more dangerous than the ones that “feel” right but can’t be justified. (Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man, 1981)

Few arguments are more dangerous than the ones that “feel” right but can’t be justified. (Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man, 1981)

Few arguments are more dangerous than the ones that “feel” right but can’t be justified. (Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man, 1981)