Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world's oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic pollution is a global problem. Every year 19-23 million tonnes of ...

From laptops to EVs, lithium-ion batteries have fueled phenomenal growth in the 21st century, but businesses struggle with a ...

Nairobi Governor Sakaja Johnson on Thursday flagged off 24 new refuse compactor trucks at City Hall in efforts to improve ...

A garbage truck was forced to dump its load on to a suburban Sydney street after a toxic vapour plume erupted from its rear bin. Authorities say the 150 kilograms of powdered bleach reacted with ...

Last May, Robert Bechaud broke into a Waste Management facility in Lafayette Township, damaging 40 garbage trucks and support vehicles by breaking windows, cutting fuel and brake lines and discharging ...

TIMES VIEW Insulating material of cables are made of plastic or rubber-like polymers. These are biological hazards. Well-off civic bodies like PMC should be self-reliant on their treatment and ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A garbage truck is stuck in a sinkhole in downtown Omaha, Neb., Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025. (Chris Machian/Omaha ...

While the close knit community of cleanliness aficionados have played their part in achieving this miracle, the main faces behind the ‘zero waste’ society are three gardeners, three garbage collectors ...

Forty years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, authorities have removed 377 tons of hazardous waste from the defunct Union Carbide factory for disposal ... 12 sealed container trucks, travelling ...

The trucks left the abandoned Union Carbide plant in the capital of India’s Madhya Pradesh state on Wednesday night despite protests by workers at the disposal plant the waste was destined for.

THANKS FOR JOINING US. I’M BILL SCHAMMERT. I’M QUANECIA FRASER OMAHA. OFFICIALS SAY A GARBAGE TRUCK DRIVER REMOVED A BARRICADE TO AN ALLEY AND DROVE THROUGH WHERE THE TRUCK FELL. FEET UNDERGROUND.

According to officials, the waste, packed in 12 sealed container trucks, left for the Pithampur ... Storage, and Disposal Facility (CHW-TSDF) at Pithampur. Singh said it is a leading-edge facility ...