A new legislative proposal would ban the sale of non-biodegradable balloons in Connecticut within the next five years. Wildlife advocates question whether the legislation goes far enough to protect ...

The fashion industry, often associated with glamour and luxury, has played a significant role in the global crisis of clothing and textile non-biodegradable waste contributing heavily to environmental ...

Volunteers clean up plastic waste on a beach in Lima, during the World Environment Day on June 5, 2018. The UN urged to take steps against the use of plastic bags, as part of a global challenge to ...

Glass is an essential part of everyday life, from drinking glasses to mirrors and eyeglasses. However, the widespread use of non-biodegradable glass has led to environmental hazards. To tackle this ...

After unsuccessful attempts to have the non-biodegradable waste disposed of through recycling, a re-use option project has made Nandere hill community in Luweero District free from littered waste.

'Air quality in metropolitan cities is the result of a complex interaction between natural and anthropogenic environmental conditions.' Air Pollution is one of the major health hazards that we are ...

One of the perils of rapid industrialisation and urbanisation is the increased generation of non-biodegradable waste. Although the problem was not surmountable even when the global economy was in the ...

Kalangala Town Council in partnership with Eco Brixs has embarked on buying non-biodegradable wastes as one way of decreasing their accumulation. The move is set to begin mid-February, where a ...

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has started collecting biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste the same day, breaking from the schedule it had prepared after waste segregation was introduced ...

In a recent study published in Advanced Materials, a team of researchers developed a novel small-diameter biodegradable vascular graft that aids the formation of elastin-containing structures in the ...