While the Carbone decision in the 1990s served to block some solid waste flow control methods, the use of franchising agreements is giving municipalities a new way to manage where municipal solid ...

A tri-county planning committee seeks input to help create a Materials Management Plan that reflects local needs and ...

Municipal solid waste (MSW) recycling programs are highly localized activities, where materials are collected, sorted, processed, and converted into raw materials for the production of new products.

Between 2003 and 2024, World Bank support has helped to significantly improve solid waste management in low- and middle-income countries. This has been achieved through holistic financing approaches ...

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) is the public law in the United States that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the authority to control hazardous and non-hazardous solid ...

The Municipal Council, in collaboration with the Indian Pollution Control Association, is bolstering decentralised waste management through Project Segregation of Waste. The initiative focuses on ...

A research team has developed a method to recycle valuable metals from electronic waste more efficiently while significantly reducing the environmental impact typically associated with metal recycling ...