The world is struggling to deal with ever-growing quantities of waste. A new World Bank Group report, What a Waste 3.0, shows that more than 2.6 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste (which includes ...

The Kiteezi landfill near Kampala was expanded as part of the Kampala Institutional Infrastructure Development Project, allowing for the storage and treatment of ...

Management of solid wastes and sewage are the subject of Chapter 21 of Agenda 21, which recognized that "environmentally sound management of wastes was among the environmental issues of major concern ...

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India notified the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026 ...

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 ...

1. What is the assignment that the World Bank received? Croatia has recognized the importance of managing resources more efficiently for the benefit of the long-term economic and environmental ...

This project was supported by a contract between the National Academy of Sciences and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Contract No. AWD-002044). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or ...

On April 1, new regulations for Solid Waste Management will kick in, requiring everyone to adopt a four-stream waste segregation system from the outset. For those generating substantial waste, ...

Across rapidly urbanizing regions and industrializing economies, two critical challenges continue to intensify in parallel. The volume of solid waste generated by growing populations is rising at a ...