Folly Beach adds trash collection stations where beachgoers can help clean as they go

When Patrick Garlock was surfing on Folly Beach one day, he noticed trash had made its way into the water. As a business owner, surfer and proud local, he felt he had a responsibility to do something ...

Class 12 student builds dustbin that collects, sorts waste: Tech behind AI-powered trashcan

A 17-year-old student has developed TRASHbot, an AI-powered robot designed to tackle litter in public spaces. This autonomous ...

PMC to discontinue Kasba waste pilot after GB raises concerns over implementation

The pilot project, launched on January 19 in Kasba and Bhavani Peth, was aimed at strengthening decentralised waste ...

Azul Prime Outperforms OpenJDK 25 by 21.8% in New High-Performance Java Platform Benchmark Report

Azul, the trusted leader in enterprise Java for today’s AI and cloud-first world, today released The High-Performance Java ...
CNA

IN FOCUS: With landfills almost full, Indonesia grapples with ‘ticking time bomb’ of waste crisis

Indonesia is counting on waste-to-energy plants to tackle its waste crisis, but experts say it’s no substitute for reducing ...
中国日报网

Jakarta mandates household sorting to reduce chronic pressure from waste

A door-to-door waste collector pushes his cart in front of a house in Jakarta Indonesia, on May 4. BAY ISMOYO/AFP Jakarta now requires households to sort their trash for composting and recycling, and ...
The Independent

Garbage piles up in Bali after restrictions on resort island’s largest landfill disrupt collection

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
TheServerSide

5 ways to force Java garbage collection

As heap utilization approaches 100% and the inevitable OutOfMemoryError threatens to crash the production JVM, DevOps professionals who tend real-time Java ...
The Star

Bali trash issues raise concerns after landfill closure

Workers sorting waste on April 17, 2026, at the Tahura integrated waste processing facility in Denpasar, Bali. The local administration has continued to increase the facility’s processing capacity, ...
Mother Jones

Rich Nations’ Plastic Waste Is Burned for Fuel Abroad, Creating Grave Health Risks

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Tropodo is a pretty village of narrow streets and brightly colored houses, set amid ...
The Straits Times

Turning rubbish into electricity: Indonesia to build huge incinerators to shrink landfill needs

BEKASI, West Java – Indonesia is planning to build large waste incinerators in 34 places over the next two years to rid the nation of the mountains of rubbish thrown daily into giant landfills. One of ...
IEEE

Evaluating Garbage Collection Performance Across Managed Language Runtimes

Abstract: Modern managed language runtimes (e.g., Java, Go and C#) rely on garbage collection (GC) mechanisms to automatically allocate and reclaim in-memory objects. The efficiency of GC ...