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›
Just 57 percent of all plastic bottles are collected for recycling, compared with levels of up to 90 percent in countries that have deposit return schemes... READ MORE›
In Lagos, for all the horrors involving waste management, trash is still seen as an enormous economic opportunity... READ MORE›
Scavengers as young as eight-years old eek out a living in unimaginable conditions at the Tibar landfill near Dili... 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›
Despite our best environmental efforts, the world still overflows with more non-biodegradable trash than ever. We review four clever ideas for dealing with it all... READ MORE›
Henderson Island, part of the Pitcairn group, is covered by 18 tonnes of plastic - the highest density of anthropogenic debris recorded anywhere in the world... 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›
The UK government says it is taking the issue of plastic bottles seriously... READ MORE›
Some had consumed so much waste that they regularly excreted scraps of balloons or slivers of plastic bags... READ MORE›
A 13-year-old boy and two girls aged 14 and 15 were among the dead, said Pushpa Soysa, head nurse at the main Colombo hospital... READ MORE›
A UK shale gas company is considering dumping waste water from fracking in the sea, emails from the company show... 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›
Monsanto, BP and Veolia agree to pay for cleanup of contaminated Welsh site... READ MORE›
How geography, climate change and politics contributed to Sierra Leone's latest disaster... 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›
About 187 million tonnes of plastic waste is dumped into the country's waters, placing Indonesia... 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›
Archaeologists have unearthed hundreds of whisky and gin bottles at the remains of a first world war British army barracks in the centre of Israel... READ MORE›
The more homeless people we get, the more people need to find shelter in waste containers... READ MORE›
The Melrose Gallery in Johannesburg recently held a solo-exhibition by South African artist Mbogeni Buthelezi, showcasing the plastic painter's 'Sugar Tax' collection... READ MORE›
Brown tested the Environment Agency's regulatory regime by applying for a waste licence in the name of Oscar, a West Highland terrier who died 10 years ago... READ MORE›
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