Environmental Management and Assessment Sources

This indispensable six-part series produced by the University of New Orleans’ Schlieder Urban Environmental Systems Center examines the management of wastewater, stormwater, and industrial discharge in urban centers, helping viewers to identify basic issues, evaluate options, and implement decisions.

Where is the world's waste going? That's the focus of the latest edition of The Question. With China ending its program to take in the world’s waste, it has to go somewhere else. The National takes a look at how countries like Sweden and Germany have introduced incentives for people to return their waste.

Are you being served?: Scanning your own groceries, booking your travel, printing your own tickets, selecting your own seats. It’s not just about convenience: we’re doing a lot of work ourselves that companies used to do for us. But while we’re doing the work, are we seeing the savings? - - Coffee cups update: Last fall, we revealed that cups collected by some Starbucks and Tim Hortons stores for recycling are being sent to landfill. We've gone dumpster diving again, and found more questions about what the coffee chains are actually doing with all those used containers.