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The Manta Project empezará a recoger residuos en el océano en 2023 Link: https://www.traveler.es/experiencias/articulos/the-manta-project-sea-cleaners/15788

Republic Services of Phoenix announced its second-quarter financial earnings July 25, reporting revenue of 251.5 million for the three months ended June 30. Link: https://www.wastetodaymagazine.com/article/republic-services-q2-earnings-call-don-slager/

Roughly US29 billion will be needed if the Shanghai trash-sorting program is implemented across nation Link: https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/07/article/waste-management-potential-looms-large-in-china/

Commuters in Rome are exchanging used plastic bottles for Metro and bus tickets under a scheme the city’s mayor has called a first for Europe. Link: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/free-travel-tickets-for-romans-who-recycle-plastic-bottles-lqxkzhsdl

Siblings in Dubai have recycled around 15,000 kg of paper and 460 kg of plastic Link: https://gulfnews.com/lifestyle/community/for-these-dubai-siblings-recycling-is-a-way-of-life-1.65390487

KAMPALA, July 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – At their workshop in a Kampala suburb, Lawrence Okettayot and his business partner, both in their mid-20s, drilled holes and screws into a steel-lined, green wooden box designed to dry food in an eco-friendly way. Link: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uganda-food-energy/feature-ugandan-entrepreneurs-cook-up-eco-friendly-dryer-to-cut-food-waste-idUKL8N2355HK

Roughly US29 billion will be needed if the Shanghai trash-sorting program is implemented across nation Link: https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/07/article/waste-management-potential-looms-large-in-china/

Trash sorting initiative, if successful, would point way for rest of China after past failures Link: https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/shanghais-waste-scheme-may-spark-recycling-revolution

As part of its efforts to enforce solid waste management rules, 2016 in the state, the Kerala State Pollution Control Board has decided to assess the ‘Ente Nagaram, Sundara Nagaram’/ ‘My City, Beautiful City’ (decentralised waste management project) taken up by the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation. Link: https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/290719/thiruvananthapuram-lens-on-decentralised-waste.html

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia plans tighter rules to combat a surge in imports of plastic waste, such as a registry of trash exporters and tougher border checks, officials said on Friday. Link: https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-environment-plastic/indonesia-plans-new-rules-to-curb-jump-in-imports-of-plastic-waste-idUKKCN1UL1E4