The waste crisis is devastating our planet. A lot of the stuff we throw gets dumped in landfills. These massive waste disposal sites are often created by destroying forests or inhabitable lands. For ...

Our research on apartments and plastic use in four cities—Melbourne, London, Barcelona and Perth—found apartments present extra challenges for waste production, collection, sorting and disposal. Our ...

China started small-scale trials of waste sorting in 2000, but landfill sites and unmanaged waste continued to encircle cities and local people protested plans to build more incinerators. Gradually, ...

The use of plastic has skyrocketed over the past decade. Recent statistics reveal that in 2021, each person in the European Union (EU) generated an average of 36 kg of plastic packaging waste.

Ghana is facing a growing plastic waste crisis. Each year, the country generates an estimated 1.1 million tonnes of plastic waste—the equivalent weight of more than 180,000 elephants. Despite the ...

After seven people were killed in a devastating landslide at the Bantargebang landfill in March, the Jakarta governor has issued an instruction mandating waste sorting at home before disposal, though ...