Around the world, economic development has been accompanied by the generation of about 2 billion tons of urban waste each year. The developed nations have put a lot of effort into sorting out ...

SPECIAL REPORT / The European Union’s lead civil servant for the environment has called for a ban on landfilling and warned that separate collection is not enough if the EU is to improve its ...

Starting in January next year, in the capital region, municipal solid waste cannot be landfilled unless it is incinerated. The Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment met with the Seoul ...

Tension is brewing in the Vazhathurthi area near the Sarovaram Biopark in Kozhikode once again after the workers of the Sarovaram Prakrithi Samrakshana Samithi and the Vazhathuruthi Residents’ ...

The Korean government has introduced stabilization measures to prevent a “waste crisis” ahead of a ban on direct landfilling of municipal solid waste in the Seoul metropolitan area, scheduled to take ...

Ghana is sitting on a resource it continues to misclassify as a nuisance. Every day, large volumes of solid waste are collected across urban Ghana, especially in Greater Accra, only to be transported ...

Petitioners alleged that the landfilling activity in Saket and Rabodi obstructs natural drainage channels and could increase ...

Cuttack: Orissa high court on Monday took serious note of allegations regarding unauthorised landfilling activities near Sainik School, within Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) limits, ...

Kochi: In a shocking revelation, the state govt's audit wing has found that the private contractor deployed by Kochi corporation at Brahmapuram solid waste treatment plant used inert waste and other ...