Between 2003 and 2024, World Bank support has helped to significantly improve solid waste management in low- and middle-income countries. This has been achieved through holistic financing approaches ...

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved a $60 million International Development Association credit to support Cambodia’s improvement of solid waste and plastic management. The ...

Solid waste management (SWM) is a global issue that necessitates collective efforts to reduce environmental and social impacts. Inadequately managed waste produced from years of economic development ...

Scaling often refers to the ability of a system, application, or network to handle an increasing amount of work, users, or data. Scalability in human behavior considers how individual actions ...

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 ...

With the increasing population worldwide, waste generation is multiplying uncontrollably. Municipalities find it challenging to manage such wastes for further separation, recycling, transformation and ...