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Taking a look at Lansink's waste hierarchy and the circular economy to challenge the 2,000-year-old method of using landfills for waste disposal.
by Conor Riffle
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Sponsored: The world needs to focus on more innovative approaches to building a circular economy if it is to truly address environmental threats.
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A conversation about next-generation recycling technology, progress since China banned most imports of plastic and paper, and demand driving the industry forward.
by CJ Clouse
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Sponsored: A new study debunked the long-held myth that corrugated pizza boxes are unrecyclable. Now, they’re aiming for a slice of the recycling pie.
by Pete Durette
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Tesla is driving down the amount of waste generated per vehicle and has decreased manufacturing waste by 50 percent in new facilities.
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Next time you look up at the night sky and consider your place in the universe, consider that there are 8,000 metric tons of junk swirling around above you.
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Making a concrete case for change in how we build.
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270 of the 440 operating reactors worldwide are more than 30 years old. Many nuclear plants originally were designed for a service life lasting around 30 years.
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Advocates of the take-make-waste system have characterized the linear economy as the optimally efficient free market. But nothing is efficient about it.
by Ron Gonen
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Measuring circular economy performance requires data on areas of a business that haven’t traditionally been measured.
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Sponsored: InterContinental Hotels Group is using circular economy thinking to seek out solutions to problems such as plastic waste.
by Sopan Shah
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A green recovery supports the environment. An efficient recovery works for both the environment and the economy.
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Man-made cellulosic fibers, the second biggest cellulosic fiber group after cotton, holds huge untapped potential to transform the fashion industry, according to Forum for the Future and the Textile Exchange.
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Eon, an IoT platform, is working with the fashion companies and retailers to minimize waste and build the infrastructure for circular business models.
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Here are some lessons from the planet’s best line of defense.
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Leaders from the two companies hope others will be inspired to do more to reuse or compost their products.
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One key is to design out waste in the first place.
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97 percent of the cleaning product is made from the water, acids and alcohol from the food waste.
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The momentum to stop plastic pollution continues to grow, so how do we channel it into real systems change?
by Erin Simon
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Collaboration is key in moving toward an economy that's regenerative by design.
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Informal waste workers have long managed the waste of the South, for whom new forms of collectives offer new hope, while the gig economy threatens to de-formalize waste management in the North.
by Kate O'Neill
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Despite the zero waste movement, the case for keeping them open is getting increasingly harder to defend.
by Ana Baptista
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Excess product poses a material risk to your company and to the planet. Here's how to recover those losses.
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Matthew Hollis, founder and CEO of waste management software firm Elytus, talks about the cultural side of trash.
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From supply chain to waste management, cities are trying to develop local circular economies.