With expanding urban populations and evolving consumption patterns, cities are faced with challenges pertaining to waste management. Traditional approaches centered on collection and disposal ...

As the world welcomes the New Year, 1,000 Civil Society Organizations and Grassroots community groups in over 90 countries are also ...

CITY HALL — The City Council got a first look at an ambitious plan to turn Santa Monica into a zero waste city in less than two decades, a program that will require major changes in the way residents ...

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced the city's first zero-waste plan June 18. The recommendations include 30 near- and long-term strategies for reducing both consumption of natural resources and ...

New York City Council voted June 8 to adopt the Zero Waste Act, a collection of laws that aims to advance the city’s efforts to divert organic waste from landfills, fight climate change and create a ...

The study focuses on Hengshui City, a national pilot for China’s “zero-waste city” initiative, which generates 4 million tons of livestock manure annually. By carrying out the construction of the ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A new report shows that the City of Austin is nowhere near the "zero waste" goals it made in 2011. KUT found that the zero waste plan the Austin City Council approved in 2011 has ...

Chula Vista is launching a free, interactive academy to teach residents how they can help bring the municipality closer to becoming a zero-waste city. Zero Waste Academy is a seven-session course that ...

It’s not every day that you see the words “zero waste” and “climate” in the same sentence. Zero waste practitioners, both individuals and civil society organizations, vie for individual lifestyle ...

Community Based Waste Management (CBWM) are common in developing countries and has a potential to achieve zero waste. To see this happening, we need to understand the nature of these systems and then ...