The waste sector operates in some of the toughest conditions imaginable, but with informed design, modern material ...

When it rains over a landfill, water trickles through the waste, picking up contaminants in the trash and forming a polluted liquid called leachate. Lawmakers will consider a bill next session that ...

Despite the threats that improper handling of hazardous waste, particularly electronic waste (e-waste), poses to human health ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— Conservation, public health and environmental justice organizations sued the Trump administration today over the federal failure to respond to a petition requesting stronger ...

Failure by counties to establish Material Recovery Facility (MRF) is hindering efforts to deal with waste. MRF is a solid-waste management plant that processes recyclable materials after being brought ...

E-waste management in Bangladesh is currently a victim of weak policy and systemic disorder. Approximately 97% of e-waste is processed informally due to the lack of good governance, a Transparency ...

Municipal failures in waste management are threatening South Africans’ constitutional rights to a healthy environment, the parliamentary committee on environment, forestry and fisheries has been told.

Bangladesh’s hazardous waste, particularly electronic waste (e-waste), is being managed amid serious governance failures, as authorities have largely failed to enforce existing laws, according to a ...