TAIPEI — Inspiration for high fashion can come from strange places. For one Taiwanese designer, it’s upcycling old wires and...
Mina, Saudi Arabia -- Thousands of cleaners are busy separating plastic from other rubbish as more than two million Muslims wrap up a pilgrimage to Mecca that presents a huge environmental challenge for Saudi Arabia.
The Mamuniya camp in Mina near the holy city is dotted with color-coded barrels – black for organic waste and blue for cans and plastics for recycling.
It's all part of an initiative to reduce the environmental footprint of the hajj, one of the world's largest annual gatherings.
In a neighborhood in downtown Sofia, theatergoers are looking for entertainment among the city’s rubbish — quite literally. As night falls,...
“You are eating what you are throwing.”
The city of Paris is set to launch a major publicity campaign asking locals and visitors to keep the city clean, through a strategy of positive reinforcements.
NEW YORK — New York’s sanitation department has its very own anthropologist-in-residence, a garbage guru who studies the refuse along...
Given the elegant aesthetic and the delicate quality of Francis Sollano’s wearable art, it’s hard to believe that his pieces were fashioned out of garbage sourced from the most popular establishments in his native Cebu.
Haiti's central government collects only about 40 percent of the capital's garbage, leaving the rest to pile up in streets and gutters in impoverished neighborhoods, adding to the nation's misery.
I am always happy to visit Davao because the city reassures me that Filipinos can learn discipline if rules and regulations are strictly implemented. Drivers follow speed limits, smokers stay in designated areas, and garbage is not a landmark.
Nigeria's biggest city Lagos is home to some 20 million people and produces a staggering 10,000 tons of waste every day, a lot of which piles up on the busy streets or floats in open sewers.
