Garbage Pickers

BUENOS AIRES

Buenos Aires Mayor Slammed for Slow Pace on “Zero Waste” Targets

By Sebastián Lacunza
The garbage strewn across many streets and sidewalks in the Argentine capital reflects the inefficiency of a waste collection and treatment system that, paradoxically, has become increasingly costly for the city’s residents, say civil society groups and opposition parties.

Making Waste Management a Sport in India

By Keya Acharya
In a country notorious for the inability to deal with the waste it generates, municipal officials in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh are now resorting to making waste management a competitive sport, in their bid to cajole the entire nation to clean up.