Municipal solid waste (MSW) management systems in the United States have undergone much evolution over time. The overall system has seen many changes, including changes in policy, the types of ...

Municipal solid waste (MSW) recycling programs are highly localized activities, where materials are collected, sorted, processed, and converted into raw materials for the production of new products.

Each year, people around the world dump a staggering 2.12 billion tons of waste. One of the biggest reasons for this astounding amount of waste is that human beings trash approximately 99% of ...

More than half the world’s population does not have access to regular trash collection Unregulated or illegal dump sites serve about 4 billion people and hold over 40% of the world’s waste The World ...

There’s also no consequence for local politicians because Zero Waste pledges are not seen as a make-it-or-break-it issue for ...

China will ban imports of 24 types of solid waste by the end of 2017 in a fresh move to reduce environmental pollution, an official said Thursday. China has notified the World Trade Organization of ...

The World Bank’s Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC), in collaboration with the Indonesia Local Service Delivery and Improvement Project (LSDP) task team, organized a five-day exposure mission to ...

Authorities have expanded the earlier two-bin system, wet and dry waste, into a four-bin framework ...

Solid waste in Mulago, Kampala, 2010. The city’s residents have found ways to recycle waste into energy. SuSanA Secretariat/Flickr, CC BY-SA In places where municipalities continuously fail to collect ...

China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) announced April 19, 2018, that China will ban imports of 32 types of scrap materials (which the MEE labels as “solid waste”). Sixteen materials, ...