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Plastic is a fast-growing segment of U.S. municipal solid waste, and most of it ends up in the environment. Just 9% of plastic collected in municipal solid waste was recycled as of 2018, the most recent year for which national data is available. The rest was burned in waste-to-energy plants…

For the past five years, the GANGS project, a European Research Council-funded project led by Dennis Rodgers, has been studying global gang dynamics in a comparative perspective. When understood in a nuanced manner that goes beyond the usual stereotypes and Manichean representations, gangs and gangsters arguably constitute fundamental lenses through…

“Only a wronged person goes to court,” said Shivpal Bhagat. “A favourable order – that the court quashed environmental clearance – had encouraged us. Now, our feelings are being toyed with.”

Firms underreported true scale of sewage pollution for 10 years, which allowed them to set higher bills, tribunal told