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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 to full article

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 to full article

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 to full article

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 to full article

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 to full article

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 to full article

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 to full article

There is no doubt that the waste management industry can play a positive role in the drive against climate change, and with thoughts of the discussions going on at COP25 in Madrid, it seemed timely to look at an event which explores the role of waste to energy in the …

The goal of the program is to utilize organic matter that would otherwise be dropped off at the Transfer Station and turn it into usable loam for island gardens. Link:

Ford Motor Company and McDonald‘s partnered to turn the fast food chain‘s used coffee grounds into car parts, according to a press release. Link: