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.

Waste. If there’s one thing every businessperson can agree on, it’s that waste is bad. It’s created by inefficient, poorly designed business processes and takes many forms — hours spent doing ...

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 ...

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 ...

One challenge to kitting prepreg fabrics or unidirectional (UD) tapes is figuring out what to do with trimmings that are too small or whose fibers are incorrectly aligned for reuse in another project.

Imagine a world no longer habitable by humans, where only heaps of trash remain as our legacy. We haven't reached that scenario yet, but we are producing incomprehensible amounts of waste, at a faster ...

Growth in 3D printing marches on at an annual 26% clip. While new printers keep increasing the print speeds and range of materials that can be used, data on recycling these materials has been sparse.

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 ...