On a Thursday morning in Portland’s Old Town neighborhood, two dozen people mill around a warehouse, waiting for the results ...

Bengaluru-based Swachha Eco Solutions is an integrated waste management and recycling company working to build a circular ...

Waste pickers are viewed as mere disposers of trash when, in reality, they are vital environmental custodians, reducing ...

Delhi’s waste pickers walk 3-4 km under the blazing sun, collecting and sorting the garbage that keeps India’s capital ...

New assessment urges a climate-smart approach to Indonesia’s waste sector amid landfill crises and growing climate finance ...

"We're the biggest business in the world," 54-year-old Maria Soledad Mella Vidal, a Chilean waste picker, told AFP. "We don't have money, infrastructure or machinery... but we are extremely proud ...

Each waste picker face stands out as an open ledger in life’s balance sheet. Wrinkled foreheads, weathered hands, unadorned feet, and the absence of makeup adds a unique sparkle to the women’s ...

She juggled four jobs a day – including as a free-roaming waste picker, a critical profession in India though largely invisible to the rest of us. When not ignored, she would be met with ...

Some 20 million people globally collect plastic waste to make a living. In developing countries without formal reuse and ...

Pune: A waste picker, Surekha Subhash Kale, aged 36, from Ramtekdi, died after a bucket of an earthmover hit her around 11.30am on Saturday. The incident occurred on the premises of a private bio ...

The producers pay a fee,calculated in tonnes of packaging they produce, to these PROs. Following efforts by waste picker organisations, theregulations were amended in May 2021, ordering waste pickers ...

Kolhapur: A waste picker on Wednesday returned a gold chain worth Rs 8.30 lakh to its rightful owner after finding it in a bag of nirmalya immersed at the Sangam ghat on Sept 7. The wife of ...