The National Food Agency (Bapanas) has urged Indonesians to secure food availability by reducing food waste and food loss while preparing meals.
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Kabadiwalla Connect – an Indian technology start-up – is working to transform waste collection and management in cities in the Global South by using the Internet of Things (IoT) and building on the contribution of existing informal networks.
Why is Waste Collection Important?
Waste collection and management is a vital component of healthy, safe, and environmentally sound city management – with wider implications for the whole planet’s environmental wellbeing. However, effective waste collection and management is often unattainable in developing countries.
Research has shown that upper-middle-income countries’ populations see 86% of their solid waste collected effectively. In lower-middle-income countries, this is reduced to 68% and only 41% of solid waste is collected in low-income countries.
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The Open Burning of Waste Poses Grave Health Risks To Millions
We’re generating more waste than at any other time in history what with a greatly increased global population, rampant consumerism and the wanton use of single-use items like plastic bags and wrappings.
Most of us rarely spare a thought to what happens to our household waste once we put it in the bin, but much of it gets simply burned. And the practice of burning waste poses grave health risks to tens of millions of people around the world, according to a new report, which is the first study of its kind.
Countries face emissions ‘cocktail’ from waste burning
Youths engaging in open burning of waste at a dump. A report says this potentially releases long-term environmental pollutants and toxic substances linked to immunological and developmental impairments. Copyright: Fairphone, (CC BY-NC 2.0). This image has been cropped.
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