Close to half of the country’s waste is handled by vulnerable informal recyclers, so how much can a national framework really do?

In the coming months, the Indonesian Government will begin restricting waste shipments to landfills to ensure that organic waste is processed at the source through composting or other treatment ...

Senegal and Cape Verde have launched a joint project to improve the control, management and reduction of plastic waste, the Senegalese Ministry of Environment and Ecological Transition announced on ...

They’re tenacious, which is very good for a milk jug or a car bumper. But they don’t easily break down, which is bad for the environment. From the 1950s, when plastics were first produced in ...

Chemists and innovative recyclers are trying to turn gloves, pipette tips, and other laboratory plastic waste into something useful ...

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority is working with the World Bank Group and local government units for the ...

The Amayizhanchan Canal, particularly the section running beneath the Thampanoor Railway Station premises, has historically posed severe operational challenges.

In 1969, Republican Congressman Paul McCloskey warned executives gathered at a packaging conference that they had to do something about the waste they were creating — “not dispose of it, but reduce ...

That plastic bottle you throw away. In Lamu, it could end up as a dining table or chair. The Flipflopi project has recycled 400 tonnes of waste into hand-carved furniture, and they’re ...

Plastic pollution is more than just trash on the beach. Marine plastic waste releases PFAS and heavy metals into the water of small freshwater lakes and ponds, at levels exceeding the threshold limits ...