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Sure, your aluminum can of LaCroix can be crushed, melted and remolded into another aluminum can of LaCroix. But your banana peel can feed thousands of critters, from worms and insects to bacteria and fungi, that slowly turn it into a nutritious soil amendment that will make your garden happier …

A growing awareness about pesticides and wax in vegetables and fruits is turning more and more people towards organic food. The idea of a kitchen garden and Urban Bagiya is fast catching up, with schools and individuals practising it with a lot of success. Link: https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/green-revolution-ii-awareness-boosting-composting-healthier-produce-good-health/story-pKTxnoGqmylzLWJ8rXTAZK.html

Fruits and vegetable scraps, coffee grinds, egg shells… These are all common things found in a kitchenrestaurant, but once they‘re usedhave gone bad, more often than not, they end up in landfills. Link: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/buffalo/news/2019/08/11/compost-buffalo-food-waste-recycle

With the growing emphasis on waste reduction, environmental protection and sustainability, the sector demands more hands to carry forward the mandate Link: https://www.thehindu.com/education/time-to-look-beyond-the-dump/article28973848.ece

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 …