Modern-day “plastic pirates” are sailing on Europe’s invisible plastic tide. Their goal is to find circular solutions for the elimination of aquatic plastics.
James Law looks back at his first year serving as ISWA president. A year full of challenges but also full of optimism, as he says.
As global negotiations on a plastic pollution treaty continue without agreement, the International Solid Waste Association warns that...
A six-year air quality study in Texas reveals how subtle wind shifts can cause dramatic spikes in sulfur dioxide pollution near industrial...
OLAF's Waste Shipment Enforcement Group brings together 50+ stakeholders to strengthen international cooperation against environmental...
Guest authors Alfons Grooterhorst, Ludwig Streff and Patrick Dorvil take a look at the future of European waste management, its challenges...
A new report ranking waste producers and their handling of pollution has named the world's top offenders in waste generation and poor...
On this year’s World Environment Day, observed on June 5th, the global community is uniting under the powerful theme: Beat Plastic...
At the WtE Beacon conference in Stockholm, Sweden, ISWA’s Björn Appelqvist highlighted the urgent need for sustainable waste management...
Fly tipping is a criminal offence, a major nuisance to local communities and causes environmental damage. Newly released data from DEFRA...
On 5 December, World Soil Day, the International Compost Alliance (ICA) is celebrating with a series of webinars. The events are in line...
Day two of the ISWA World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa, was all about the lack of data, data collection and the need for a global...
Cape Town is hosting this year's ISWA World Congress. The first day was full of inspiring speeches and interesting presentations. Also, the...
everwave and STADLER Anlagenbau GmbH have jointly developed and built SortX, a mobile sorting container specifically designed to combat...
Plastic particles mixed in with the sand on the beach, plastic bottles gathering on the coasts: Marine litter is a global problem. But it...
In its annual report, Break Free From Plastic ranks the world's top plastic polluters. Here are the results from the global brand audit.
Local governments face enormous challenges in managing the ever-growing waste streams as they are responsible for their collection,...
The US EPA has presented new regulations to deal with PFAS contamination. Industry expert Ryan Moore, Program Director, PFAS Remediation at...
The draft rule would reduce the open burning and open detonation of waste explosives, such as fireworks, ammunition and flares, which the...
The informal waste sector, and waste pickers in particular, play a crucial role and have a significant impact on the economic, social and...
A call for action to catalyse collective efforts towards an improved waste management system based on a holistic 3D perspective.
The Global Waste Management Outlook shows the urgent need to decouple waste generation from economic growth and shift to zero waste and...
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