Few people get as excited about wastewater as Thomas Fudge. He has good reason: He and his colleagues believe they have figured out how to turn sludge into gold. Wastewater from places like breweries ...

Zymo Research Corporation, a global leader in molecular biology and pathogen detection, is proud to sponsor the Microbes in Wastewater Symposium 2026, taking place January 15--16, 2026, at the Balboa ...

Microscopic organisms are being deployed to capture methane from sources such as farms and landfills, with the potential for ...

Plastic pollution is everywhere, and a good amount of it is composed of polyethylene terephthalate (PET, ♳). This polymer is used to make bottles, containers and even clothing. Now, researchers report ...

Municipal wastewater contains a large range of excreted antibiotics and has therefore long been suspected to be a spawning ...

MICROrganic Technologies wants to revolutionize wastewater treatment. Based in Troy, New York, the company recently crossed a major milestone when it demonstrated a commercial prototype of VIVA™, a ...

Microplastics gather drug resistant bacteria as they move through water, allowing microbes to spread from polluted sites into ...

A recent spill of bio-beads—small plastic pellets used by some wastewater treatment facilities since the 1990s—has brought ...

A nitrogen cycling bacterium turns toxic solvent wastewater into biodegradable plastic, using the solvent itself to block ...

A group of researchers has analyzed 1,240 wastewater samples from 351 cities in 111 different countries and found that ...