How street vendors and waste pickers can help cities manage growth

The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact recently renewed global commitments to sustainable and equitable urban food systems. The ...
The Hill

A global revamp of waste management could significantly reduce emissions: report

Broad adoption of composting, recycling, and production cuts could help reduce waste-related emissions by 84 percent, according to a new report from the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives ...
Devdiscourse

Cities are drowning in waste and data-driven systems may be the only way out

The study identifies Geographic Information Systems as the foundational layer of modern digital waste management. Waste ...
Devdiscourse

From Debris to Risk: Strengthening Disaster Waste Management Systems in West Asia

ISWA manual shows that disasters and conflicts in West Asia generate vast amounts of hazardous and mixed waste that, if poorly managed, quickly become a second crisis threatening health, the ...
Science Daily

Uncollected waste and open burning leading causes of the plastic pollution crisis

A new study shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. Researchers used A.I. to model waste ...