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The Thailand Environment Institute (TEI) estimates that the amount of used surgical masks nearly reaches 1 million pieces a day. Link to full article

The Waste Today Virtual Trade Show to bring the industry’s latest technology and innovations to attendees remotely. Link to full article

The results portray an industry that has seen significant changes in personnel, operations and incoming volumes. Link to full article

With large scale disruption to recycling collections and markets across the world, TOMRA Sorting Recycling has published an article looking at how Plant design automation and technology advancements lead to increased purity rates, while requiring fewer manual sorters… Link to full article

That’s according to Horsham District Council which says that residents achieved ‘much improved’ recycling rates for the first quarter of this year, and particularly since the Covid-19 pandemic started. Link to full article

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) The New York City Department of Sanitation announced Monday that it is suspending its curbside composting pickup until June of 2021 due to budget cuts related to the coronavirus pandemic. Link to full article

A local NGO is taking care of medical waste produced by health institutions amid the coronavirus crisis in Lebanon, which is already grappling with an acute trash crisis. Link to full article

Chuck Geer, head of Clean Harbor’s COVID-19 decontamination efforts, provides the best practices on vehicle sanitation. Link to full article

I would like to make a comment about the scrapping of garden waste collections while the country deals with the devastation of coronavirus. Link to full article

Dia Mirza took to Instagram to educate people to make productive use of their quarantine time. The video that she posted was recorded for World Environment Day 2019. Link to full article