Plastic, paper, metal? In Japan's Kamikatsu, sorting rubbish isn't that simple. Residents face a mind-boggling 45 separate categories for their garbage as the town aims to be "zero-waste" by 2020. And ...

A decade-old community effort in Nagoya to recycle food waste from supermarkets and school lunches to make compost for vegetable farming has been awarded the Biodiversity Action Award by the Japan ...

The Japanese town of Kamikatsu already recycles about 80 percent of its rubbish but is aiming for 'zero-waste' by 2020 ...

In many parts of Africa, urbanization is occurring at a dizzying pace - so fast that key infrastructure isn’t keeping up. A chronic lack of incinerators means trash is often dumped in the open. The ...

At the urging of the plastics industry, the USDA is considering allowing materials such as bioplastic cups, coffee pods and compostable plastic bags into the organic compost waste stream. Farmers and ...