COVID-19 has shed light on the significance of waste management systems for people’s health and raised the importance of addressing their limitations in the long run. Although there is inadequate data ...

The world is struggling to deal with ever-growing quantities of waste.

Rapid urbanization and increased waste generation in Addis Ababa is making it even harder for the city to provide safe and sustainable solid waste management. Tokyo Development Learning Center is ...

The waste crisis is devastating our planet. A lot of the stuff we throw gets dumped in landfills. These massive waste disposal sites are often created by destroying forests or inhabitable lands. For ...

With the increasing population worldwide, waste generation is multiplying uncontrollably. Municipalities find it challenging to manage such wastes for further separation, recycling, transformation and ...

The world is struggling to deal with ever-growing quantities of waste.A new World Bank Group report, What a Waste 3.0, shows that more than 2.6 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste (which includes ...

Plastic is now becoming as much of a problem as it has been a solution. Some say the global plastic waste crisis has reached a critical tipping point, that the oceans are swimming with microplastics, ...

Tsunamis and earthquakes pose devastating threats to coastal communities worldwide. However, beyond the immediate destructive power of these events, the negative impact of the disaster waste they ...