The city of 20 million relies on “inventive” ways to ensure that trash is not illegally dumped in places where it would foul the environment, Urb.im reports. 

Plastic bags clog drains and waterways in India’s capital despite a prohibition on their manufacture, sale and use, the New Indian Express reports. 

The I Got Garbage website matches trash scavengers with homes, apartments and businesses to ensure that refuse is sorted for recyclables, Urb.im reports.

Their work fills some of the gap left by inadequate municipal recycling efforts, The Nature of Cities reports. 

The Big Apple is the largest U. S. city to prohibit single-use polystyrene foam products after determining that they can’t be recycled. 

The Indian government sees opportunities for improving 300 cities by having them adopt Surat’s successful energy, waste, water and e-government policies, the Times of India reports. 

A new Berlin supermarket requires shoppers to bring their own containers while food markets planned for London would cater to the poor with cashless transactions, USA Today and the Daily Mail report. 

Trash pickers have long been the main recyclers in Argentina’s capital. Once marginalized, their work is now being formalized as part of a new waste management system.

Seattle trash collectors will double as food police by ticketing scofflaws who toss compostables, the Seattle Times reports.