Towards a circular economy: Indonesia’s ‘fly guy’ finds grubby fix for Jakarta’s food waste
With Jakarta’s only landfill near bursting point, an Indonesian maggot farmer has a sustainable solution for the city’s food waste. MICHAEL TAYLOR, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Toxic mining waste threatens health near North Macedonia school
Lojane, North Macedonia Reuters The heavy odour gives a hint of the tonnes of toxic waste including arsenic oxide left at a landfill site near where 400 children learn and play at a school in North Macedonia. A chromium and antimony mine in the village of Lojane was closed in 1979 and the waste was […]
Postcards: In Nepal’s capital, piles of garbage put off tourists and residents
GOPAL SHARMA, of Reuters, reports on Kathmandu’s garbage problem…
Wow!: Thai landfill turned into urban farm to feed poor during pandemic
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Chiang Mai in northern Thailand…