Health care is responsible for between 4% and 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions; if it were a country, it would be the fifth largest emitter on the planet. Australia's health care sector is one of ...

Gabriella Marfe and Carla Di Stefano's new book is essential treatise on the issues envornmental health and waste management. Many of us have concerns about the pollution round the globe, but we often ...

A study finds evidence for how to reduce some of it, but also a large blind spot on how to remove the rest. By Austin Frakt Even a divided America can agree on this goal: a health system that is ...

Healthcare waste management (HCWM) has become a major challenge as healthcare becomes more sophisticated, population size increases and healthcare facilities expand ...

Tens of thousands of tonnes of extra medical waste from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has put tremendous strain on health care waste management systems around the world, threatening human and ...

The COVID pandemic is not just a public health crisis. It is also an environmental one. After more than 430 million reported cases of the disease around the world, the pandemic has generated huge ...

There's a shared hope, both within and outside the plastics industry, that younger generations — millennials and Gen Z, specifically — will save the world from climate change by demanding sustainable ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has produced tens of thousands of tons of extra health care waste ...