India’s iconic white marvel, the Taj Mahal, meaning “Crown of the Palace,” which is an ivory-white marble mausoleum built 369 years ago by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal, has decayed in “all yellow” due to air pollution over the past 25 years. According Read more…
Bea Johnson is hailed in the United States as the guru of the zero waste movement. Johnson is a native of France and currently lives in Mill Valley, California. She first adopted the zero waste lifestyle in 2008. “Since then, my life and that of my family have changed for Read more…
Doha: Qatar University College of Engineering (QU-CENG) and the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) launched a project to establish collaboration on the exchange of information and consultancy on the recent techniques to capture the organic gas released from waste and recycle it into an organic fuel for dual-fuel vehicles. Read more…
The Hong Kong government likes to tell people how to go about their public and private lives. From teaching citizens how to wash their hands to ordering healthy dishes on the menu, from befriending neighbours in the same building to avoiding exorbitant overseas roaming charges, there are public education campaigns Read more…
As the Christmas festivities beckon, how will we deal with all that extra packaging? Will we end up producing a mountain of rubbish? This is the subject of Malaysia’s First Zero Waste Fest on Dec 23, Saturday in Kuala Lumpur Read More
Winds blowing west-east in rainy season are bringing the trash from the ocean and covering popular beaches south of Bali. Going surfing this time of year it does not mean fighting waves only, but also fighting trash, mostly plastic./span> Read More
With holidays approaching, many of us are mindful of the need to collect and recycle all the additional plastic, paper and other waste that we are about to generate. This year, however, there are questions about where that waste will end up. China, the world’s largest importer of scrap, is Read more…
(Autonomous Quality Control) to increase recovery of recyclables without adding additional manual labour at the company’s commercial and commingled dry recyclables MRF in Maldon, Essex. Launched earlier this year by Oregon-based Bulk Handling Systems (BHS), the Max-AI AQC incorporates an AI-powered vision system to identify recyclables and make decisions, along Read more…
In New South Wales the Albury Waste Management Centre includes the fourth largest landfill in the state. Mike Ritchie explains how its Halve Waste initiative has become the most successful waste reduction program in Australia. The Halve Waste Initiative has recently been awarded the best organics recovery program in NSW Read more…
For the first time in over two years, Afroz Shah and his team of volunteers did not set foot on the 2.5 km stretch of beach at Versova in Mumbai on the last weekend of November for their routine collection of refuse that gets washed ashore. “Volunteers abused by goons Read more…