Five companies have been awarded a design and engineering contract to prepare plans for a depository for spent nuclear fuel in northwestern Ontario, Canada. The Deep Geological Repository (DGR) will…

A US company has cancelled plans to build a $300m plastic waste recycling plant in Erie, Pennsylvania, citing concerns about the financial case for the project in light of cuts…

As a brand new hydroelectric dam in remote Northeastern British Columbia, Canada gears up for full generation this autumn, locals are grappling with an unexpected problem: What to do with…

We know that the linear way we build now – where materials make a one-way trip from the earth to landfill – is dangerously unsustainable. It assumes too many infinites:…

Vinci Grands Projets is to team up with its sister companies GTM Sud-Oues and Chantiers Modernes Nouvelle-Aquitaine to design and build a waste-to-energy plant in the commune of Brive-la-Gaillarde, in…

A court in Sweden yesterday approved plans to excavate a repository for nuclear waste, the Barron’s news site reports. The decision clears the way for a construction project that will…

A Dutch waste-to-energy specialist has formed a partnership with the government of Lagos State in Nigeria to build a plant to power some 40,000 homes. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Harvest…

A colossal waste of materials and embodied carbon appears to have been averted in China after a city government decided that 39 nearly complete residential towers built by embattled developer…