Akureyri is Iceland’s largest town outside the capital area, with just under 18,000 inhabitants. Akureyri has access to carbon free energy for both electricity and geothermal energy for domestic heating. There remain, then, emissions of greenhouse gases from transport and traffic.

Duty on rubbish sacks reduces waste volumes and enjoys wide popular support

Sustainable waste disposal in partnership with children and young adults.

Australia’s most sustainable city, Frankston, takes the lead in handling green waste.

Surplus energy and by-products become valuable resources

Cairo confronts the challenges of modernizing and sanitizing its already very resourceful waste collection system, which is founded upon the recycling efforts of a poor class known as the Zabbaleen.

One of the innovative sustainable initiatives is to reuse the materials from the demolition area to build the new Olympic Park.

Copenhagen, Denmark, is no longer using landfills as a general solution to its waste problems. Instead, the city has been reducing waste and using that which is produced as a resource that can be recycled or incinerated for energy.

Many Japanese cities are working hard to reduce waste due to lack of space to contain it. The Eco Town Programme of Kawasaki, Japan, mainly focuses on recycling between industries.

From litter to clean city. Penalties and awareness campaigns changed Belfast from grim to beautiful.

In Kiberas slum in the outskirts of Nairobi, people have joined forces and created compostable waste facilities that generate sufficient income to maintain new toilet facilities and surrounding park.