Plastic bottles, smartphones, chicken bones – and the wider debris of everyday life – are tipped to outlast human civilisation and become the defining fossils of our age.

Buried deep in a Welsh landfill, beneath layers of years-old garbage, there is a hard drive that holds the key to almost $800 million in bitcoin – or so James Howells believes, after ...

Garbage disposals are the unsung heroes of many a kitchen. Mounted beneath the sink drain, these devices pulverize food waste into tiny bits so that you can easily wash them away. Less food winds ...

A key issue is the leachate, a polluted liquid that results when water filters through layers of accumulated waste in improperly managed garbage piles, posing a risk when it infiltrates soil and ...