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First Wednesday in October International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction: October 13 International E-Waste Day [148] [149] [150] October 14 International Sawfish Day [151] October 17 Stepping Stone Day [152] October 17 Sustainability Day! [153] Fourth Wednesday of October World Okapi Day [154] [155] October 18 International Sloth Day [156 ...
Waste picker incomes vary vastly by location, form of work, and gender. Some waste pickers live in extreme poverty, but many others earn multiple times their country's minimum wage. Recent studies indicate that waste pickers in Belgrade, Serbia, earn approximately US$3 per day, [11] while waste pickers in Cambodia typically earn $1 per day. [12]
The income of waste pickers is paradoxically often above the poverty threshold of US$1/day and may even exceed the country's minimum income: In Romania, a teenager earned an average of 125-300 euros per month when the minimum wage was $70; in Dar es Salaam, an adult scavenger earned an average of US$55 per month in 2004 when the minimum wage ...
E-waste are items such as toys, e-cigarettes, power tools, smoke detectors, wearables, smart home gadgets, e-bikes, e-scooters and loose cables. Here's how to participate in E-Waste Day on Oct. 14 ...
The nearest facility for household hazardous waste disposal is: Environmental Enterprises, located at 1249 Essex Ave., Columbus. Fees will be charged. For prices, they can be reached at 614-294 ...
Waste Management will change its routes for residential garbage collection in town starting Oct. 7 because it wants to give drivers more time off and reduce the amount of trucks on the road on ...
The International Waste Working Group (IWWG) is a registered not-for-profit international waste organisation established in 2002 to serve as a forum for the scientific and professional community, aiming to provide an intellectual platform to encourage and support integrated and sustainable waste management and to promote practical scientific development in the field.
2013 Waste Atlas report is dedicated to global solid waste management assessment and is based on data from 162 countries and 1,773 cities. [9] According to the outcomes of the report, current annual municipal solid waste generation is assessed to about 1.9 billion tonnes with almost 30% of it to remain uncollected. [ 10 ]