To handle increasing wastewater loads, sewage treatment plants are adopting more advanced treatment processes. However, many of these approaches require additional space and energy, highlighting the ...

A sewage treatment plant near Cirencester discharged untreated waste into a brook for over a month.

Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into something productive. Across the United States, about 97 million metric tons of ...

Imperial Beach resident Matt Henry, his wife and their six children no longer live in their home that is about a six-minute bike ride from the beach. The family instead sleeps in their RV in their ...

With anger stoked by Channel 4’s drama Dirty Business, we look at what has happened to some of the main players ...

Sludge, a byproduct of sewage treatment, is often spread on fields as fertilizer. But growing research shows that toxic chemicals like PFAS are lurking in the muck — and getting into our food. Sludge, ...

A recent spill of bio-beads—small plastic pellets used by some wastewater treatment facilities since the 1990s—has brought renewed attention to a problem that has been quietly accumulating in coastal ...