The government launched the 'Swachh Shehar Jodi' programme to help 200 cities effectively manage municipal solid waste. This ...

Solid waste management is a major issue for cities across the world. According to the World Bank’s recent report, What a Waste 2.0, waste is forecasted to increase by 70% by 2050. Waste generation is ...

Scaling often refers to the ability of a system, application, or network to handle an increasing amount of work, users, or data. Scalability in human behavior considers how individual actions ...

The organic solid waste that citizens deposit in brown recycling bins could currently produce the amount of compost needed to satisfy 8% of the nutrients demanded by urban and peri-urban agriculture, ...

Kenya: Poor management of common solid waste — food, bones, paper, textiles, plastics, leather, rubber, glass, scrap metals, grass and wood among others — is worse in Kenya’s major cities and towns.

In 2007, only 39% of cities in Brazil had adequate solid waste treatment and disposal facilities. The objective of this project is to improve the treatment and final disposal of municipal solid waste ...