1 February 2022 | All Working Groups, ISWA blog, ISWA in the media, ISWA news
At the closing ceremony of the 2021 ISWA World Congress, Carlos Silva Filho announced the release of ISWA’s latest report titled “The Future of The Waste Management Sector: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges for the Decade”. The report represents the contributions...
1 February 2022 | Covid-19, Healthcare Waste, ISWA blog, ISWA in the media, ISWA news
The WHO report titled “Global Analysis of Healthcare Waste in the context of COVID-19: status, impacts and recommendations”, launched on 1 February 2022, details how COVID-19 has forced the world to reckon with the gaps and neglected aspects of the waste...
28 October 2021 | ISWA blog, ISWA in the media, ISWA news
A guest blog by David C Wilson, Visiting Professor in Waste and Resource Management at Imperial College London I want to talk about how much the waste and resources sector can contribute to mitigating global heating; and to make the case for prioritising...
5 October 2021 | All Working Groups, ISWA blog, ISWA in the media, ISWA news
On October 3rd, 2021, the ISWA Board gathered in Athens, Greece to hold the ISWA General Assembly 2021. As a preliminary meeting for the ISWA 2021 World Congress, the General Assembly served as an appropriate setting to collectively commit to support the transition to...
24 April 2021 | ISWA in the media, ISWA news
The volume of clothing disposed of by consumers in the developed world has quadrupled in the last 20 years. The average Western consumer throws away 38 kilograms of clothing every year – and as a growing component of our landfills, this can take up to 200 years to...
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