The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact recently renewed global commitments to sustainable and equitable urban food systems. The ...

Sanitation trucks play a vital role in municipal waste management around the world. They matter especially in China. The ...

New reports tracking the efforts to reduce plastic waste show some companies are making slow but steady progress to cut harmful plastics and increase reuse and recycling, but the world is still "off ...

Picture a plastic shopping bag that some busy customer picks up in the checkout line of a store—say, the British supermarket Tesco. That shopper piles her groceries into the bag, takes it home to a ...

Between 2003 and 2024, World Bank support has helped to significantly improve solid waste management in low- and middle-income countries. This has been achieved through holistic financing approaches ...

E-waste, which refers to discarded electrical or electronic devices, is the fastest growing domestic waste stream in the world, and it is highly toxic, threatening public health. Much of this e-waste, ...

Jack Cartwright explores the material value hidden in the UK’s discarded electronics and the carbon savings that proper ...

China's economic slowdown has left its waste-to-energy sector without enough trash to burn. So, companies are heading overseas With their domestic profits narrowing and production capacity expanding, ...