Mayor Greg Gasataya, in coordination with the Bacolod Environment and Natural Resources Office (Benro), has taken a decisive step toward strengthening the city’s solid waste management system after ...
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Waste not, want not

Can you imagine how much waste every person throws away and which becomes the problem of waste disposal companies? I recently discussed the country’s big waste problem with “Ms. Garbage” herself, ...
Like much of the Western world, Canada is facing a crisis in waste disposal as landfills reach their capacity. In Ontario, a ...
As we creep towards Christmas, the city of Greenville wants everyone to enjoy the gift of clean streets - but it’ll take ...
JOHOR BAHRU – In a former multipurpose hall atop the Johor Bahru City Council building, a 12m screen displays live feeds from 555 CCTV cameras monitoring every corner of Malaysia’s southern capital.
On a typical Bengaluru morning, you might pass a broken sofa slumped under a flyover, a mattress leaning against a tree, or an armchair abandoned near a garbage point. These bulky items have quietly ...
The City of Houston is spending $2 million to contract outside help in trash pickups. Craig Semiens was finishing his shift as a city trash collector when he jumped on a Zoom call, painting a dire ...
Lakshadweep is facing a worsening waste crisis. Community bins have been removed and garbage now accumulates in open dumping yards near the sea. A surge in tourism, increased plastic use, and lack of ...
An estimated 5 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment sit at the bottom of the Detroit and Rouge rivers, slowly seeping pollution into the ecosystem and the fish people snag from the treasured ...
A growing and still unsolved problem of the atomic age is what to do with the fiercely radioactive wastes produced by nuclear reactors. Current practice is to evaporate the liquid wastes and store the ...