From 15 to 19 September 2025, ISWA Germany will host this year's ISWA Study Tour. The training course focuses on how to design, finance, and operate sustainable decentralized recycling and waste management systems.
Fly tipping is a criminal offence, a major nuisance to local communities and causes environmental damage. Newly released data from DEFRA...
The third National Waste Crime Survey (NWCS), open until 24 February, aims to understand the scale, impact and deterrence of waste crime...
Open waste burning (OWB) is an urgent environmental and public health crisis in low- and middle-income countries, yet little work has been...
Methane gas emissions are a well-known contributor to climate change. In their white paper "The impact of management choices on landfill...
A review of the 2018 Resources and Waste Strategy undertaken by CIWM (the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management) has found that very...
Open dumpsites have a devastating impact on the environment and public health. Waste Management World spoke to James Law, Chair of the ISWA...
Dr. Paul Hudak from the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of North Texas writes about a study on detection...
ASTM International’s waste management committee has approved a new standard to analyze soils and biosolids for potential contamination from...
The first day of the 39th ISWA World Congress in Muscat, Oman offered a diverse programme covering topics such as closing dumpsites,...
A wedding photo of a couple received significant attention as they were pictured against the backdrop of a garbage dump in Puli City,...
Nickolas J. Themelis of the Earth Engineering Center at Columbia University tries a new way to calculate the expected methane emissions...
Slovakia failed to rehabilitate and close a certain number of landfills that do not comply with the requirements of the Landfill Directive,...
Methane emissions from landfills are a real problem. New aerial technologies help monitor emissions. The SnifferDRONE is the first...
As part of the Solar Impulse Foundation delegation and the Israeli Climate Tech delegation Rachel Barr, Vice President of Sustainability at...
The EU wastes more food than it imports, damaging EU food security amid the cost-of-living crisis, shows a new report from environmental...
If we end open burning of waste, we can contribute to mitigate almost twenty percent of the global emissions, ISWA president Carlos Silva...
Located around 20 km from the Esplanade of the Ministries, the heart of the Brazilian national government, the Estrutural Dumpsite is next...
With the potential to lower monitoring costs and provide increase frequency of monitoring, what do drones mean for landfill operators?
In Waste Atlas 2014 Annual Report the world's 50 biggest dumpsites were listed for the first time and their health and environmental...
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