In the United States, over one-third of food is never eaten, and more food reaches landfills than any other material in the municipal solid waste stream. Wasting food wastes the labor and other ...

Ongole’s mega waste segregation drive entered the World Book of Records on Saturday as part of celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of the city’s civic body. Municipal commissioner Venkata ...

Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh is doubling down to advance its sanitation protocol by integrating waste management and bringing all sanitation workers under one umbrella. Taking a leaf out of the Clean ...

Delhi zero-waste colonies show how local composting and recycling work, but NDMC says space and segregation remain major scaling barriers.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program is responsible for cleaning up some of the United States’ most contaminated land. For more than forty years, the Superfund program has protected ...

The Erode district administration has officially mandated that all households, commercial establishments, and institutions must segregate their municipal solid waste into four distinct categories at ...

On Sunday, Nikole Hannah-Jones published an essay in The New York Times Magazine about her most difficult parenting decision. The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and her husband — both of whom are ...

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice. Najya ...

The Justice Department said Thursday it has ended more than 50 long-standing consent decrees dating back decades that sought to curb unlawful racial segregation that was prevalent during the Jim Crow ...

Critics said the changes, mostly in the South, moved the nation “back toward the Jim Crow era.” Justice Department officials said the decrees were outdated. By Michael C. Bender Reported from ...