Hazardous wastes banned by the EC’s Landfill Directive will stop being landfilled immediately. Instead, they will be managed by treatment or incinerated. Local authorities will also be given permits ...

The toxic waste’s journey reveals the toll of a landmark program that’s supposed to be protecting the environment – and us Join reporters Matt Drange and Susanne Rust at 3pm ET for a live chat about ...

Businesses producing, storing or handling 500kg or more of hazardous waste in England no longer need to register their premises with the Environment Agency, under changes to consignment note rules ...

At least 23 million people around the world live on flood-plains contaminated by potentially harmful concentrations of toxic waste from metal-mining activity, according to a study. UK scientists ...

Camorra's multi-billion-dollar racket in disposing of toxic waste is responsible for rising cancer cases. MARIO LAPORTA/AFP/Getty Images For decades, the Sicilian mafia has been responsible for ...

Alison Gaffney believes her son’s rare leukaemia was caused by dumped toxic waste from the town’s steelworks Alison Gaffney and Andy Hinde received the devastating news that their 17-month-old son, ...

Eleven years after 540,000 litres of toxic waste were dumped in the Ivory Coast’s economic capital Abidjan, victims are still in the dark about the potential long-term impacts on their health, Amnesty ...

Years of toxic waste dumping in a Jersey Shore community where childhood cancer rates rose caused at least $1 billion in damage to natural resources, according to an environmental group trying to ...