Places like New York, Tokyo, London, Paris and Sydney vowed to "cut the amount of waste generated by each citizen 15 percent by 2030," said a statement from C40 Cities, a global network dedicated to ...

TOKYO, July 28 (Reuters) - Organisers of the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday apologised for ordering too much food for their staff during the opening ceremony and letting it go to waste after videos of ...

“Congratulations, you’re one of the most elite athletes to have ever graced planet Earth. Here’s a broken iPhone 4s and part of an old Game Boy Advance for your troubles.” OK, so that’s not exactly ...

The World Bank’s Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC), in collaboration with the Indonesia Local Service Delivery and Improvement Project (LSDP) task team, organized a five-day exposure mission to ...

Now that the Rio Olympics have ended, we have four years to wait to find out whether Usain Bolt is really done competing in Olympic events, whether Simone Biles will be as impressive at age 23 as she ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — In the near future, edible ...

In response, Professor Kotohiro Nomura and his team at Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a highly efficient method to selectively depolymerize PET from bottles and textile wastes. Their ...

As we replace old gadgets with the latest new and shiny, discarded tech can become a massive waste problem. Electronic waste can be quite valuable though, and there have been a number of projects ...

Solid waste management (SWM) is a global issue that necessitates collective efforts to reduce environmental and social impacts. Inadequately managed waste produced from years of economic development ...

Researchers from Tokyo University of Science, a specialized private research university in Japan, revealed the successful development of an enzyme that converts a white crystalline acid from plants ...

Japan’s discarded smartphones might get a second life in 2020 — as Olympic medals. Organizers for the Tokyo Olympics are hoping to source the bronze, silver and gold needed to make medals from the ...

The Rio 2016 Olympics has wrapped up, but organizers of the 2020 Olympic games in Tokyo are already planning to capitalize on stockpiles of e-waste to make the games more sustainable. Japan may have ...