A new World Bank report warns that global waste is rising rapidly and could reach nearly 3.9 billion tonnes by 2050, with poor management causing major environmental and health risks. However, with ...

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 2, 2025 / The world doesn’t have a waste problem because it creates too much waste. It has a waste problem because it can’t see what it creates.

Equipment used to train and run generative AI models could produce up to 5 million tons of e-waste by 2030, a relatively small but significant fraction of the global total. Generative AI could account ...

Nuclear waste. We've all heard about it, but what is it? Is it a problem without a solution? How big is the problem? And what exactly is this waste and why is it so important? New Atlas takes a look ...

This study was funded by the ‘Expanding safe water and waste management service access to off-grid populations in Africa’ project, funded through UKRI Collective award via the Global Challenges ...

This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese ...

For many people, what happens to donated clothes or bags of recycling waste is a mystery — out of sight, out of mind. But for millions, this waste is a livelihood. All over the world, waste pickers ...