After years of decline, the city hopes to use a bid for the next world’s fair to re-envision itself as a place that works.
Tag: Waste Materials and Disposal
How South Korean Food Waste Is Turned Into Feed, Fuel or Fertilizer
When wasted food rots in landfills, it pollutes soil and water — and warms the planet. Here’s how one country keeps that from happening.
England’s Water Companies Vow to Clean Up Their Sewage Dumping Act
Private firms apologized for not doing more to prevent the release of untreated sewage into rivers and seas and pledged to invest 10 billion pounds to fix the problem.
Garbage Piles Up in Protest Against France’s Pension Change
A bill raising the retirement age for most workers by two years, to 64, could become law this week despite widespread protests, including a strike by garbage workers in Paris and elsewhere.
In a Nation That Nearly Wiped Out Cholera, the Disease Is Surging Back
Malawi, in southern Africa, had all but eradicated cholera, recording only two cases in 2021. But more than 900 people died of it over the past 11 months, and the government is scrambling to contain its spread.
Inside the Global Effort to Keep Perfectly Good Food Out of the Dump
Around the world, lawmakers and entrepreneurs are taking steps to tackle two of humanity’s most pressing problems: hunger and climate change.
Downpours From Ian Prompt Florida Treatment Plants to Release Waste
Concern turns to industrial sites and huge farms farther north as the storm heads toward South Carolina.
Your Tuesday Briefing
Ukraine launches a southern offensive.
As Rome Burns (or at Least Its Garbage), a Mayor Dares to Dream
Could a solution to Rome’s perpetual trash crisis really be in sight? Mayor Roberto Gualtieri would like to think so.
‘Wood Is Life’: A Hong Kong Sawmill’s Last Days
Chi Kee Sawmill and Timber, in business since the 1940s, will soon make way for a vast development project. But it is still bringing new life to old wood.