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ILOILO CITY — Three groups are interested in setting up a waste-to-energy system in this city. Link: https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/08/09/3-groups-eye-waste-to-energy-project-in-iloilo-city/

Colombo (News 1st): Garbage accumulated within Colombo city limits continues to be disposed at Aruwakkalu. Another 17 trucks carrying accumulated garbage were dispatched to the Aruwakkalu Sanitary Landfill site at around 11.30 last night. Link: https://www.newsfirst.lk/2019/08/10/signs-of-the-garbage-crisis-prolonging/

Over the last 10-20 years the waste industry has changed radically. In Western world we’ve generally attempted to stop throwing everything into landfill and tried to take responsibility for collecting recyclable materials. Yet, despite our best intentions, the true value of recyclable materials is not being realised. Cross-contamination of plastics …

India’s most sacred river is also its most polluted, with plastic a major culprit. Now moves are afoot to monitor the flow of rubbish and assess its link to poverty Link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/05/plastic-poverty-and-paradox-experts-head-to-the-ganges-to-track-waste

Phoenix Environmental Group banned by EPA from accepting rubbish at its Coolaroo facility Link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/05/recycling-crisis-escalates-as-another-victorian-recycling-firm-gets-waste-ban

Sea of trash: A scavenger collects trash at a dumpsite in Burangkeng village in Bekasi regency, West Java, on Thursday. Some 500 meters from the dumpsite locals have discovered a pile of what they suspect is imported waste.(JP/Budi Sutrisno)Dadang, 35, a scavenger living in Burangkeng village in Setu distict, Bekasi …

The state’s largest operator of recycling redemption centers has closed all 284 of its centers, leaving 750 employees without jobs and many who rely on income from redeeming bottles and cans without options. Link: https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/05/californias-largest-recycling-center-business-closes-shuttering-300-redemption-centers/

Rabat – As the world’s population increases, countries are facing growing environmental challenges. A big issue is “waste,” and what to do with all of the unwanted products that are being generated by human consumption. Link: https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/08/279647/morocco-waste-management-solution/

With India about to close loopholes to its ban on importing trash following the implementation of China’s National Sword policy ban on trash imports, parts of the global recycling industry are in flux. (I have previously written about the impact – real and perceived of China’s ban on trash imports …

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