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As Houston’s Solid Waste Management Department faces ongoing challenges in providing basic services, such as consistent garbage collection and recycling pickup, City Council has promised to give the ...

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, ...

Cebu City Mayor Nestor Archival has appealed to business leaders, investors, and the construction industry to work with the government in addressing the city’s worsening garbage and water problems, ...

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 ...

Hawaii County should impose new fees for Big island residents to dispose of waste in the future, suggested a county official Tuesday. Mansour said that the county does not charge enough to make ...

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 ...

Dhaka is the second-most populous city in the world and is projected to be the world’s most populous city by 2050, according to a 2025 report published by the United Nations on world urbanisation ...