Around the world, economic development has been accompanied by the generation of about 2 billion tons of urban waste each year. The developed nations have put a lot of effort into sorting out ...

Starting in January next year, in the capital region, municipal solid waste cannot be landfilled unless it is incinerated. The Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment met with the Seoul ...

The Korean government has introduced stabilization measures to prevent a “waste crisis” ahead of a ban on direct landfilling of municipal solid waste in the Seoul metropolitan area, scheduled to take ...

SPECIAL REPORT / The European Union’s lead civil servant for the environment has called for a ban on landfilling and warned that separate collection is not enough if the EU is to improve its ...

Wastewater experts in Maine are urging lawmakers to review four newly released studies on biosolids. Those studies look at the effect of landfilling them. Since 2022, Maine has banned spreading ...

SPECIAL REPORT / As the European Commission prepares to review the EU’s waste targets, the plastics industry, a symbol of the EU’s ‘throw-away society’, is one of the focal points in discussions on ...