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.

Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into something productive. Across the United States, about 97 million metric tons of ...

The content details various categories of AOPs—including ozone-based, radiation-driven, catalytic, and physical methods—highlighting their mechanisms, chemicals involved, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In wastewater treatment, monitoring organic loads, particularly Total Organic Carbon (TOC), has become critical to maintaining efficient and effective operations. This is especially true in industries ...