When you throw something in the garbage, chances are you never think about it again. But this trash doesn’t just magically disappear. Local governments have to determine how to dispose of the more ...

The world is struggling to deal with ever-growing quantities of waste. A new World Bank Group report, What a Waste 3.0, shows that more than 2.6 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste (which includes ...

In the city of Lufkin, brush, grass, leaves, branch trimmings or other plant growth can be burned as long as it's burned on the property it came from and the person doing the burning is the property ...

Khori Khurd: At midnight on 20 April, Sameen Ahmed woke up to an all-too-familiar stench of burning plastic and rubber. Rushing out into the fields near his house in Haryana’s Khori Khurd village at ...