The increasing quantity of solid wastes is a serious environmental problem not only in developed countries but also in the developing countries in Asia. Until recently disposal was the only technical and economical option that could be taken in the management of these wastes. The technology for ...
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TODAY's Trash Talk series investigates Singapore's e-waste problem, and how consumerism contributes to the toxic pile, offering ways to reduce waste.
Despite this growing problem, domestic waste management infrastructure has not kept up, leading to staggering amounts of poorly managed waste. For example, Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, is the most populated city in Southeast Asia, but it has only recentlybegun to build its first waste-to-energ...
Plastic waste is a global issue, and within Europe, Spain is a big part of the problem. Ranking as the fourth-largest producer of plastic packaging waste in the European Union –behind only Germany, France, and Italy – the Mediterranean country’s output stood at almost 1.8 million metric ...
This problem particularly affects children under 5: hunger or malnutrition cause stunted growth (149.2 million), wasting (45.4 million) or overweight (38.9 million), particularly in Africa and Asia. Obesity in adults has also ...
in Malaysia, which has been estimated to be the 8thlargest producer of mismanaged plastic waste globally, with 140–370 million kilograms of plastic wastes entering the ocean annually [31]. A particular problem in Malaysia is that very little is known about the levels of microplastic pollution ...
A colourful back alley and multi-coloured bins belie the growing problem of waste and recycling in the Asia Pacific region, exacerbated by China's recent ban on waste imports. Image:Franz Jachim,CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 In the last 20 years Australia has strived to increase its recycling capacity to...
This difference could be due to several causes which escape the analysis of the current work, but the split of congestion at arrival and at departure avoids any problem arising from this data asymmetry. We then follow Lee et al.22 and make a change of variable in the model: \({s}_{i...
With so much at stake, why are so much plastic and other wastes finding their way into the oceans? Perhaps because waste, by its nature, is someone else's problem. But it's a problem that isn't going anywhere. Over two-thirds of the world's population are expected to live in urban...