A grassroots recycling programme in South Africa is making waves in education by using a giant wire fish sculpture to engage students and tackle the waste crisis, achieving a remarkable 75% reduction ...

Members of Parkersburg City Council rejected – by one vote – an appeal of the determination that a petition for a referendum ...

A growing number of landfill fires are being linked to everyday lithium-ion batteries, from phones to power tools, Metro ...

Long queues of refuse trucks waiting to offload waste, faulty compactors and pay-loaders, and deteriorating infrastructure ...

The Federal Government has called for a behavioural shift in plastic waste management, urging citizens and stakeholders to ...

Policymakers and development stakeholders have expressed support for efforts to reposition plastic waste as a source of ...

A new memoir by a Montreal garbageman shows the actual work of cleaning up the world’s junk.

The Catalysis Engineering Group at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has developed a new robust process for the recycling of mixed plastics waste. A newly developed pilot plant aims to demonstrate how ...

'PALIT-BASURA'. The municipal government of San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte has partnered with Robinsons Ilocos for its "Palit-Basura for Balik-Eskwela" program. The waste exchange program, which runs from ...

Make sure your people and your technology work well together. by Thomas H. Davenport and Thomas C. Redman When Mars Wrigley decided to digitize its supply chain, it invested in several AI and ...

Nuclear energy isn't as clean as we like to believe. The associated power plants produce small amounts of nuclear waste that require proper disposal. The main enemy here is time. All radioactive ...

The World Bank Group has released its flagship report, What a Waste 3.0. As the third edition of the series following the 2012 and 2018 reports, it presents a comprehensive overview of the current ...