AS THE response to the Selangor’s first public domestic waste separation at source programme has been encouraging, there are plans to expand the project to other neighbourhoods. Local Government, New Village Development and Legalising of Factories Committee chairman Ean Yong Hian Wah said the eight-week trash separation programme carried out … Read more…
Increasingly, waste has become a major environmental challenge for humanity. There have been many cases where the impact of indiscriminate waste disposal on the society and the economy has been disastrous. It is not cheap to dispose of waste safely. It would incur high transport and processing costs. The increase … Read more…
The company that plans to build a multimillion dollar garbage sorting and recycling facility at the Franklin County landfill has paid its bills, but the future of the project still is unclear. The $110 million facility would be built on land leased from the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio, … Read more…
While Chennai hurtles toward a more urban future, its dwellers are not lagging behind in generating garbage at an alarming rate. Back in 2013, Corporation of Chennai had formu lated a simple yet ambitious plan to segregate the city’s rubbish. However, after a long wait of three years, the civic … Read more…
Care Assam has launched an endeavour, Affordable Waste Management Initiative (AWMI) as an attempt to find solutions to waste management in Guwahati. The core objective is to offer a waste management design to the city in the form of satellite plants which could be easily fabricated by local materials and … Read more…
The public in Negri Sembilan have been responding well to the compulsory waste separation requirement, according to Negri Sembilan Solid Waste And Public Cleansing Management Corporation (SWCorp) director Zainal Fitri Ahmad. He said separation was the only way to manage and reduce solid waste. “We have distributed brochures in 1,414 … Read more…
Ramadan decorations have mostly come down, but the streets of Lebanon are being adorned with something else: huge piles of trash. The overflowing dumpsters are an eyesore, and the summer heat has exacerbated their noxious odor. In the face of government inaction, what can be done at an individual level … Read more…
ZenRobotics Ltd., Helsinki, Finland, and Eberhard Group, Zurich, Switzerland, say they have agreed on the delivery of a ZenRobotics Recycler robotic sorting system. The installation of the system, the first of its kind in Switzerland, will begin in late summer. The Eberhard Group is a family-owned waste management company. Martin … Read more…
ROURKELA: Safe disposal of household waste continues to be a cause for concern in Rourkela city, which lacks Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management facility. Five years back, the civic body and Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) had decided to set up a solid waste management plant on RSP land, but the … Read more…
Waste paper is big business in developed countries. Paper mills require enormous amount of waste paper to recycle. A Chennai-based company, Global Waste Recyclers Ltdis convinced there is a huge opportunity waiting to be tapped. “There is wealth in waste,” says Bharat Pujara, managing Director. It is the largest and … Read more…