A border guard in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, inpects bundles of waste textiles smuggled into China... READ MORE›
There have been many stories in US news media lately about how China's ban on foreign waste has caused recycling chaos in their country... READ MORE›
In 2016, China imported 7.3m tonnes of waste plastics from developed countries including the UK, the US and Japan... READ MORE›
Sense is an office chair designed to maximise productivity and circularity Credit Ideo The office Even the workplace can benefit from a circular economy... READ MORE›
Chinese restrictions from January will hit UK recycling efforts and risk plastic waste being stockpiled or ending up in landfill, warn industry leaders... READ MORE›
In Lagos, for all the horrors involving waste management, trash is still seen as an enormous economic opportunity... READ MORE›
Walmart food waste caught on camera 'They just toss it freely,' says former worker... READ MORE›
If you're not sure whether you can recycle plastic bottles at home head to our website and check out our recycling locator... READ MORE›
Refuse collector Kevin McGill had only been on the route in Silver Springs, one the the US' richest suburbs, for three months... READ MORE›
Koshe is the largest rubbish dump in Ethiopia and home to hundreds of people who collect and resell rubbish trucked in from around Addis Ababa... READ MORE›
Some had consumed so much waste that they regularly excreted scraps of balloons or slivers of plastic bags... READ MORE›
The landfill has been a dumping ground for Addis Ababa's garbage for more than 50 years... READ MORE›
Sri Lanka's parliament was warned recently that the 23 million tonnes of garbage rotting at Kolonnawa was a serious health hazard... READ MORE›
It was not immediately clear what caused the landslide at the Koshe Garbage Landfill, which buried several makeshift homes and concrete buildings... READ MORE›
Newham borough in London had the lowest recycling rate in England, at 15 percent, while South Oxfordshire district council had the highest, at 67 percent ... READ MORE›
Nearly three-quarters 73 percent said they would welcome more transparency about what happens to their waste, according to the survey of 1,500 adults, by waste management company Viridor... READ MORE›
According to the atlas, compiled by teams of academics and waste professionals on four continents, the 50 sites are all pollution and health timebombs... READ MORE›
Sri Lanka Garbage Dump Collapse Kills at Least 19... READ MORE›
Under the strategy, those convicted of fly-tipping and given community service would be forced to help councils clear up fly-tipped waste... READ MORE›
However, at that time, he did not find enough shocking visuals to change people's mindsets on waste... READ MORE›
Environmentalist Jawahar Kumaran killed himself and left a video protesting about 'toxic plastic'... READ MORE›
A survey by Greenpeace found five out of six global soft drinks firms sold single-use plastic bottles weighing more than two million tonnes... READ MORE›
Authorities were unsure how many more people could still be trapped, but about 30 were reported missing, Bopage told the Associated Press news agency... READ MORE›
State-of-the-art landfills Photo Albert Shamess is director of waste management for Vancouver, which is aiming to be a zero-waste city by 2040... READ MORE›
One challenge is collecting such waste from homes, but the charity Zero Waste Scotland recently ran a successful trial of kerbside collections of absorbent hygiene products... READ MORE›
The more homeless people we get, the more people need to find shelter in waste containers... READ MORE›
With pressure to boost recycling and cut costs, landfill waste in England is collected less frequently - with six councils collecting it once in three weeks... READ MORE›
Green Propeller and Ottawa's east end Kiddytown location are offering a drop-off centre for your child's old car seats on Saturday... READ MORE›
Starting May 1, 2009, Hamilton County Solid Waste Management District directed residents to take old computers and TVs to 2trg for recycling... READ MORE›
But instead, the district urban management bureau assigned the site and then oversaw approvals... READ MORE›
The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed and returned the case to Titus' Maryland courtroom in 2014... READ MORE›
For years the Environmental Protection Agency relied on estimates to determine how much trash was being sent to landfills... READ MORE›
But the Department of the Environment insisted that the cost of recycling waste was already factored into charges... READ MORE›
More than one third of all household waste is recycled with Ireland ranked joint third in Europe for reducing the amount of rubbish going to landfill... READ MORE›
Thousands of people demonstrated in Mexico City on Monday night, demanding the students be returned alive... READ MORE›
Coal will be used more efficiently, and recyclable energy sources will be encouraged... READ MORE›
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