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Waste Management in Pakistan and its Economic Potentials
Waste management is a significant challenge in Pakistan, with the country generating an estimated 48 million tons of solid waste annually. Unfortunately, only about...
ZWE and Reloop publish a guidance on how to legislate mixed waste sorting in the context of the RED
Zero Waste Europe (ZWE) and Reloop have released today these guidelines for legislating Mixed Waste Sorting (MWS) in the context of the Renewable Energy...
Mixed waste sorting is key to meeting the EU’s Circular Economy Objectives
Reloop and Zero Waste Europe have published today a new study by Eunomia Research and Consulting which shows that applying sorting systems to mixed...
Global Waste Trade: What is it? Why does it happen and How to solve it
Crops, commodities, oil, automobiles, or even services; these are the few common things that will pop up on our minds when we discuss international...
On Declaring War On Waste
Consider a huge conglomeration of cooking grease and oils mixed with grit, ash and feminine hygiene products, a solid mass reaching the size of...
Circular Construction Waste Management in Croatia: From Raw Material to Waste and Back
The Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development and the World Bank presented today the results of a two-year technical assistance project aimed at supporting...
Textile-producing nations unite to reduce chemical waste
The Governments of Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Viet Nam have joined forces to fight chemical pollution today, launching a joint $43-million programme to manage...
Waste not, want watts – turning waste into energy
by Anthony King
The race is on to reuse waste as energy in the most effective way possible. Combined heat and power is an old idea for...
Global Forum on e-waste management explores Circular Electronics
Within the framework of the UNIDO-GEF LAC e-waste project, the United Nations Development Organization (UNIDO), the United Nations University (UNU) and the United Nations...
Healthcare waste from COVID threatens environment
Tens of thousands of tonnes of extra medical waste from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has put tremendous strain on healthcare waste management...