India needs to move away from a linear to circular mode of waste management, minimising waste and also recovering energy and ...

Between 2003 and 2024, World Bank support has helped to significantly improve solid waste management in low- and middle-income countries. This has been achieved through holistic financing approaches ...

Solid waste management (SWM) is a global challenge that is strongly linked to climate change, urban sustainability, and public health. In particular, municipal solid waste has become one of the most ...

India's race to build and upgrade its renewable energy infrastructure is accelerating at a rapid pace. At the same time, it's also creating a problem not talked about enough: waste. And it's also not ...

Solid waste management (SWM) is a global issue that necessitates collective efforts to reduce environmental and social impacts. Inadequately managed waste produced from years of economic development ...

A recent study has found that India will generate over 11 million tonnes of solar waste by 2047 if it does not scale up ...

The U.S. produces more plastic waste than any other country in the world. Last year, more than 35,000 tons of it was shipped to Malaysia, which received more discarded plastic from rich nations than ...

Up to 904 million pounds of the waste was illegally dumped in the U.S. The United States produced more plastic waste than any other country in the world in 2016 -- about 92.6 billion pounds, ...

One of the highest-risk components of nuclear waste is iodine-129 (I-129), which stays radioactive for millions of years and accumulates in human thyroids when ingested. In the U.S., nuclear waste ...