(Isabel Pavia/Moment/Getty Images) Worldwide peanut production results in more than 10 million tons of waste piling up each ...

A smaller plate with more careful portion sizes can help prevent food waste this holiday season. (Matthew Mead/AP) It is a great irony of American life that we celebrate Thanksgiving - a holiday meant ...

A Rhode Island start-up is working to recycle spent nuclear fuel into long-lasting power systems for the military ...

Sewage pollution in the Thames has been a problem for centuries. A new art installation at Science Gallery London explores the history, engineering, geography and science of human waste in the river.

Nuclear waste has become a kind of cultural shorthand for everything people fear about atomic power, from glowing green sludge to warnings that we are burdening distant descendants with our mistakes.

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The United States is nowhere near its goal of cutting food waste in half by 2030, according to new analysis ...

Waste is a natural by-product of life on Earth and of productive human economies. Living systems have evolved to reconstitute waste — creatures like dung beetles fill an ecological niche of breaking ...