AHMEDABAD: At least 10 per cent of the municipal waste generated in Ahmedabad every day, is plastic. The city generates around 2,600 tonnes of waste daily. A study conducted in August last year revealed that over 10 per cent of this was plastic was More...

AHMEDABAD: In the next three months, a small army of workers in uniforms will be spending the nights cleaning Ahmedabad's streets. But before you witness this 'Surat phenomenon', the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is trying to solve the proble More...

The County of Hawai‘i Department of Environmental Management will be conducting Household Hazardous Waste Collection Events at its Hilo and Kailua-Kona (Kealakehe) Recycling & Solid Waste Transfer Stations in June. The Hilo HHW Collection Event More...

Hazardous waste recycling day brings a line of cars filled with toxic trash to the Essex County Hazardous Waste Depot in Cedar Grove. Chris Black, a Local contributor, reflects on his removal of hazardous waste in an opinion post. Essex County held i More...

For years, power and coal companies have been freely dumping toxic coal ash into unlined landfills and unsafe ponds. Coal ash is hazardous waste from coal-fired power plants filled with dangerously high levels of arsenic, selenium, mercury and other More...