The Punjab government has enforced a waste segregation regime for all commercial centres, shopping malls, plazas, offices and educational institutions amid an intensifying air-pollution problem. The ...

Wastes from hospitals, laboratories, human and animal clinics are considered hazardous and non-hazardous waste. Non-hazardous includes beddings, linens, bandages, and even waste from the kitchen. In ...

Medical wastes from different hospitals and diagnostic centres across Chattogram city are being routinely collected and disposed of without proper segregation, raising serious public health risks, ...

Nearly three years after the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) rolled out its plan to collect segregated waste from households across the city, the initiative is still struggling to gain momentum.

CEBU, Philippines — Cebu City is preparing to enforce waste segregation once again, a mandate that has proven challenging to implement despite many years of efforts. The Cebu City Solid Waste ...

More than two decades after the rule was written into law, this city will finally impose strict enforcement of its waste segregation policy starting Jan. 16, 2026, as the city moves to address ...