Ever increasing solid waste production has been threatening natural environment and human safety in recent years. With increasing urbanization worldwide, Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) has increased ...

The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), as part of its outreach efforts about the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, shares this story submitted by the University of Malaya, a UNAI member ...

Plastic is now becoming as much of a problem as it has been a solution. Some say the global plastic waste crisis has reached a critical tipping point, that the oceans are swimming with microplastics, ...

The strategy for radioactive waste other than used nuclear fuel will see Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Organization take responsibility for the disposal of intermediate-level waste and non-fuel ...

With the increasing population worldwide, waste generation is multiplying uncontrollably. Municipalities find it challenging to manage such wastes for further separation, recycling, transformation and ...

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