In a new University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study, researchers show how a simple system using woodchips and a bit of ...

Researchers have shown how a simple system using woodchips and sawdust can reduce nitrogen, phosphorus, and common drugs in ...

microbes living in sewage sludge. The enzyme could be used by wastewater treatment plants to break apart microplastic ...

Plastic pollution is a global problem, and much of it comes from polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a common plastic used in ...

This discovery could pave the way for bioengineered solutions to tackle plastic waste cleanup. Researchers have long observed ...

Like many pharmaceuticals, it can remain in an active form when our bodies flush it out. That's a problem, because although ...

A bacteria commonly found in wastewater can break down plastic to turn it into a food source, a new study finds. Scientists ...

Microbes are hungry ... grow on plastics littered throughout urban rivers and wastewater systems. But exactly what these Comamonas bacteria are doing has ... Using treated plant waste as a ...

In findings published today (Sept. 19) in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, the researchers report that the bacteria Salmonella enterica was detected in samples from two wastewater treatment ...

From delivering potable water to collecting wastewater, nearly 100 high school and college students got an up-close look at ...

Integrating biogas, heat and floating solar panels on wastewater ponds could generate enough electricity to supply about 27% ...

Now, researchers report in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology that they have discovered an enzyme that breaks apart PET in a rather unusual place: microbes living in sewage sludge. The enzyme ...