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Rapid growth in urban population, rise in environmental awareness, and stringent government regulation toward illegal dumping are the major drivers of the waste management market. Link: https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/03/05/1747957/0/en/Global-Waste-Management-Market-to-Reach-484-9-Billion-by-2025-at-6-0-CAGR-Says-Allied-Market-Research.html

The Caterer has switched to a fully compostable starch wrapper for its weekly print magazine, in association with Brita. Link: https://www.thecaterer.com/articles/547862/the-caterer-introduces-fully-compostable-magazine-wrapper

World Wide Fund for Nature‘s report says since the year 2000, the world has used more plastics than in all the years before. Link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/world-entangled-plastic-waste-catastrophe-190305185554140.html

‘Recyclable roads’ could help tackle ocean pollution and be replicated across the UK. Link: https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2019/03/05/new-factory-opens-to-turn-plastic-waste-into-road-surfacing/

Anyone can turn a yardeven a few pots into beautiful food, says Los Angeles gardening guru Lauri Kranz. Link: https://www.heraldcourier.com/community/finding-room-to-grow-almost-anywhere/article_f4c0e48f-6588-571b-9eba-e35d56e2bda1.html

DATA analytics specialists Topolytics are working with the Ordnance Survey to a ‘smart’ system to track and monitor all of the UK’s waste. The former has been chosen by the Department for Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) to design the system and capture the 20 million-plus movements of waste, including …

Q: I have gotten a plot at my town’s community garden. I am wondering what I should be doing to prepare the soil for spring planting. Add compost? Link: https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/home–garden/simple-test-the-properties-garden-soil/Si8wENlLlbkWzOobp6gihO/

It will use a grant from the Department for International Development (DfID) to spread recycling skills in Kwa-Muhia on the southern shore of Lake Naivasha, an internationally important wetland site. Link: https://www.mrw.co.uk/latest/charity-teaches-recycling-in-kenya/10040614.article

Recently on Capitol Hill, the plastics industry gathered congressional staff and reporters together to highlight a billion-dollar campaign designed to rid the ocean of plastic. At the event, Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) announced the reintroduction of legislation to achieve that same goal. Link: https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/432081-cant-win-fight-against-plastic-waste-without-recycling

Acadiana its time for another edition of your lawn and garden. Weeds over here, weeds over there, weeds everywhere. I don‘t want weeds anywhere. Is that a good segway into mulch? Link: https://www.klfy.com/lawn-and-garden/garden-compost/1817144252