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 ...

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 ...

As Japan takes the final steps toward restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world’s largest nuclear ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

For a city as vast, dense and relentlessly dynamic as Lagos, waste is not just an environmental issue, it is a governance ...

Piles of plastic bags and household waste have been reported across South Tangerang since the Environment Ministry ordered a ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. A Section of Nairobi's Dandora dumpsite with huge mountain of garbage. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard] Failure by counties ...