San Francisco, diverting 70% of waste from incinerators and landfills, keeps on pushing to divert more! Read about the city's programs in this great article.

An international environmental groups’ study warned over the burning of mercury-added products that lead to increased mercury pollution into the earth atmosphere.

MANILA, Philippines -- Residents of San Mateo, Rizal along with environmental groups on Saturday launched a protest action to stop the illegal construction of a new garbage dump there. Protesters on bikes rolled into town Saturday for a nine-kilometer bike rally to call on the Rizal provincial government to halt the construction of a garbage dump on a 19-hectare area spanning two San Mateo villages, Guinayang and Maly.

Excessive burning of mercury-added products doubles mercury emissions to the atmosphere every year, international non-government organizations (NGOs) warned on Thursday.

The Sacramento City Council voted January 15th to end discussions regarding the proposed plasma gasification incinerator and to scrap the plan completely!

The new report released by As You Sow titled "Waste and Opportunity: U.S. Beverage Container Recycling Scorecard and Report", discusses the billions of waste containers that go wasted each year. Here you can read an article from Waste News discussing the publication and find a link to the report itself on As You Sow's website.

There are many who claim that modern-day discrimination is based solely on economic terms, not on caste or communal lines. But the view from Kamatchi Devi's house in the Kodungaiyur garbage dump in Chennai is different. Where there is hazardous waste you will only find dalit and other backward castes. Like trash, some people are still considered disposable.

This Wall Street Journal article discusses many of the problems with the current CDM credit trading system. Under this credit trading scheme, practices like capturing landfill-released methane gas are awarded credits which can be traded to other polluters. Landfill owners that were capturing methane before this policy was instituted are being rewarded for doing nothing new, and now trading their credits for a profit, allowing others to pollute more with their credits. This policy effectively raises the cap on carbon emissions and allows for even more pollution.

The Ontario Ministry of Environment has released "Toward a Zero Waste Future" -- a discussion paper for the Review of Ontario's Waste Diversion Act 2002 (WDA). It has concurrently issued a letter to Waste Diversion Ontario (WDO) requesting a review of the existing Blue Box Program Plan (BBPP).