If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. On 9 October 2013, the Resident Representative of Vietnam ...

Around the world, waste generation rates are rising. In 2020, the world was estimated to generate 2.24 billion tonnes of solid waste, amounting to a footprint of 0.79 kilograms per person per day.

ISWA manual shows that disasters and conflicts in West Asia generate vast amounts of hazardous and mixed waste that, if poorly managed, quickly become a second crisis threatening health, the ...

The Kiteezi landfill near Kampala was expanded as part of the Kampala Institutional Infrastructure Development Project, allowing for the storage and treatment of ...

With the increasing population worldwide, waste generation is multiplying uncontrollably. Municipalities find it challenging to manage such wastes for further separation, recycling, transformation and ...

On 16 September 2013, the Permanent Representative of Malta, Keith Azzopardi, deposited his country's instrument of accession to the IAEA's Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and ...