The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has started collecting biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste the same day, breaking from the schedule it had prepared after waste segregation was introduced ...

Biodegradable polymers are a type of polymer that exists both naturally and can be synthesized in laboratories. This special class of polymer is broken down naturally by microbial processes to produce ...

Plastics make up approximately 5–12 % of global waste generation, constituting around 20–30 % of waste by weight. Alarmingly, about 60 % of plastics end up as plastic waste (PW) in the environment. 2 ...

After unsuccessful attempts to have the non-biodegradable waste disposed of through recycling, a re-use option project has made Nandere hill community in Luweero District free from littered waste.

Kochi: With thousands of people visiting beaches daily during holidays, sands along the 17km coastal belt in Ernakulam are littered with trash, besides the ones washed up ashore. On International ...

The College of Engineering at Seoul National University has announced that Professor Seung-kyun Kang’s research team from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering has developed a ...

The Environment Ministry has introduced rules that make it harder for makers of disposable plastic ware to label such products as ’biodegradable’, introducing a stipulation that they must not leave ...