Organizations conduct waste audits to minimize the organization's waste impact on the environment. Organizations conduct waste audits voluntarily and as mandated by local, state and federal laws.

Converting biosolids into building materials could keep a lot of leftovers of the waste process out of landfills, and provide other environmental benefits, too. By JoAnna Klein It may be unpleasant to ...

Imagine a world no longer habitable by humans, where only heaps of trash remain as our legacy. We haven't reached that scenario yet, but we are producing incomprehensible amounts of waste, at a faster ...

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment image: Researchers Jeremy Guest, right, and Yalin Li led a team at the Center for Advanced Bioenergy ...

Waste. If there’s one thing every businessperson can agree on, it’s that waste is bad. It’s created by inefficient, poorly designed business processes and takes many forms — hours spent doing ...

One challenge to kitting prepreg fabrics or unidirectional (UD) tapes is figuring out what to do with trimmings that are too small or whose fibers are incorrectly aligned for reuse in another project.

Wastewater from biorefineries that convert plants into fuel is full of organic materials that cannot be efficiently treated with conventional wastewater systems, making it costly and energy-intensive ...