Never put plastic bags in curbside recycling. Ever. So says Jake Anderson, general manager of Republic Services, the company that runs the recycling plant in Tucson. (An Arizona Daily Star reader once ...

A little nip, a little tuck and a whole lotta nerves. "We just pray. We just bless the doctor's hands and pray that everything goes well," Stacey says, as she and Darcey bow their heads in prayer.

Hiro Technologies Co-Founder Miki Agrawal poses with a diaper and a pouch full of plastic-eating fungi at her company’s laboratory, in Austin AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) -Could baby poop and fungi work ...

NEW ORLEANS, March 19, 2024 — Once thrown away, disposable items such as diapers and sanitary pads can take hundreds of years to decompose, because their absorbent parts and waterproof layers contain ...

It’s 9am on a chilly morning in Austin, and a big green truck is at the intersection of 38th and Jefferson, heading into the Bryker Woods neighborhood. Every 10 feet or so, it stops and two men in ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) — A dirty diaper may be gross to you, but one Texas company believes it could be the secret ingredient to helping answer an environmental question: How do we clean up all of our ...

I slipped on a pair of yellow rubber gloves and knelt over the toilet, dunking and scrubbing my baby's poop-filled cloth diaper. As the brown water splashed back at me, I gagged and tried to remind ...

Coral reefs are having a tough time. From bleaching events to increasingly acidic and oxygen-free zones in the oceans due to climate change, threats to coral reefs and marine life are vast. Now, ...

STORY: Could baby poop and fungi team up to tackle landfill waste? That’s the idea behind a new biodegradable diaper innovation. "This end product is just digested plastic and essentially earth." “As ...

Once thrown away, disposable diapers and sanitary pads can take hundreds of years to decompose, because they contain plastics and other synthetic polymers. But now, researchers are replacing these ...