MANILA, Philippines — “Waste doesn’t disappear. It only changes location.” Plastic Bank made this point as it explained that ...

Each day, the world produces some 5.5 million tons of waste. Over the course of a year, that adds up to more than 2 billion tons of solid municipal waste, much of it taking up space in landfills and ...

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Some 20,000 metric tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) are produced every day in metropolitan São Paulo (Brazil), with household trash accounting for 12,000 tons and street cleaning (mainly sweeping, ...

The Costa Rican government on Wednesday called mis-handling of solid waste “one of the biggest environmental problems” facing the country today. In that context, the Presidency introduced an action ...