Tokyo Development Learning Center hosted a Technical Deep Dive on solid waste management, with an emphasis on a subject of growing global concern — plastic waste accumulation in the world’s oceans.

Solid waste management is a major issue for cities across the world. According to the World Bank’s recent report, What a Waste 2.0, waste is forecasted to increase by 70% by 2050. Waste generation is ...

Management of solid wastes and sewage are the subject of Chapter 21 of Agenda 21, which recognized that "environmentally sound management of wastes was among the environmental issues of major concern ...