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The initiative, founded by husband-and-wife restaurateurs Massimo Bottura and Lara Gilmore in 2016, sources surplus food from local restaurants, supermarkets, farmers, and suppliers to prepare meals for the homeless and hungry. Link:

Incinerator is part of larger plan aiming to have a quarter of the country‘s waste to be used for generating energy by 2030 Link:

New technologies and economic structures led to increases in Turkey’s recycling rate but 500.000 wastepickers are excluded from commercial gains in the recycling and waste collection sector. Link:

NORTH OF THE THAMES, between Barking and Dagenham, a new town the size of Windsor is springing into life. When Barking Riverside is complete, it will bring a new river walkway, a linear park, shops, offices, schools, an over­ground railway station and more than 10,000 new homes to the east …

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste, a group of more than 40 companies along the supply chain, was formed in an attempt to help eradicate plastic waste in the environment. Link:

Let’s make this holiday season green. After the holidays, take advantage of the City’s free Treecycle program by dropping off your real tree at the permanent Yard Waste Depot, next to the Landfill, from December 27, 2019 to January 31, 2020. Link:

Thanks to changes to Washington state law, people will soon have a new option when it comes to how their bodies are treated after they’ve passed. Recompose is a company that will begin offering an alternative to traditional burialcremation called “natural organic reduction. Link:

A large waste incinerator planned for near Welshpool will be totally unnecessary under the Welsh government‘s newly-published zero waste strategy, it has been claimed Link:

The reusable shopping platform, which launched with big hype and is now eyeing retail, has already raised one key question in its early days: What are the true costs of convenience? Link:

Moving the needle on plastic waste reduction requires innovation, and it’s spurring Morgan Stanley’s Multicultural Innovation Lab to search for and accelerate founders whose startups help address the problem. Link: