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Six years after breaking ground, CopenHill — a waste-to-energy plant topped with a year-round ski slope — is officially open, marking a major milestone in Copenhagen’s journey to becoming the world’s first carbon-neutral...

Have you ever heard of bioenergy? Or, have you ever wondered where your garbage goes once you throw it out? For many people — especially Americans — once their trash leaves the house, there is no more thought about where...

In a bid to bring more renewable energy and greater resilience to the city of Copenhagen, the Danish government has announced plans to build nine new artificial islands as part of what will become the largest and most ambitious...

Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa has had one landfill for around 50 years: the Koshe dump site. Serving over three million people, it's about as large as 36 football pitches, according to the United Nations Environment Program...

Dubai plans to deal with their garbage in a bold new way: with the largest waste-to-energy plant in the world. Gulf News and New Atlas reported the government announced plans for a facility that will handle as much as two...

Six years ago, Bjarke Ingels Group unveiled plans for a ski slope power plant that could provide the city of Copenhagen with electricity, hot water, and a steady stream of recycled materials...

Hurricane Irma left a mess of destruction in its wake. But in Florida, some of that trash will be put to good use - as electricity. Garbage will be burned in waste-to-energy plants, including one in Hillsborough County, where...

The kitchen of the future will be healthier for our planet and improve our family ties through food. That's the vision behind The Future Kitchen, a proposal by New York-based architect Marc Thorpe and students of the industrial...

At least 60 people are dead after a mountain of trash collapsed at a dump in Ethiopia on Saturday night. The "landslide" at Koshe Garbage Landfill, which lies just outside the country's capital of Addis Ababa, claimed mostly...

http://vimeo.com/154018831 Located on the mountainous outskirts of Shenzhen, the Waste-to-Energy Plant will be housed inside a single circular structure that comprises all the auxiliary buildings and industrial facilities....

The local community in Leeds and other stakeholders have confirmed the final design of the plant and commissioned Jean-Robert Mazaud of S’pace Architects to design the new Recycling and Energy Recovery Facility in Cross...

Unilever has long stood proud as a food manufacturer with lofty sustainability goals—from their adoption of sustainable palm oil to their efforts urging consumers to cut back on waste, stating that food is "too cheap" in...

“Burn baby, burn” is an old chant for a new generation of Americans who are too inconvenienced to put a bottle or two in a blue bin instead of a brown one...

Surrounded by desert, the curvaceous 75,350-square-foot building was inspired by the shape of sand dunes and oriented to optimize the prevailing Shamal winds and limit exposure to the harsh sun...

Fuel cell technology is set for prime time as major automakers unveil street-ready hydrogen cars - but the question remains how best to fuel them. Well, here's an idea - run them on poo power! Yesterday I test drove a futuristic...