A city of 12.4 million people, Russia’ capital, Moscow, produces eight million tons of waste a year, one-fifth of all the garbage in Russia, with 90 percent of that dumped in landfills.
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Public-private partnerships have an important role to play in upgrading solid waste management in Asia, according to lessons learned from a five-city project undertaken by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) over the past three years.
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The volume of discarded electronics in East Asia and Southeast Asia rose nearly two-thirds between 2010 and 2015, and e-waste generation is growing fast both in total volume and per person measures, new United Nations research shows.
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The European Commission has adopted a new Circular Economy Package it says will help European businesses and consumers contribute to “closing the loop” of product lifecycles through greater recycling and re-use. But Members of the European Parliament are critical of the new package.
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