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App has saved more than 5,000 bags of Starbucks leftovers in Poland Link:

In a recent study, environmental engineering master‘s student Bappi Chowdhury and his colleagues found that adding conductive materials to the waste products could potentially turn them into a reliable feedstock, allowing for a production rate of up to 70 percent more biomethane—a renewable energy source—from a mixture of fat, oil …

Monday morning, and a sorry bunch of tangled cables, a broken coffee machine and a single clip-on light is all there is inside the metal crates at Veolia, a noisy recycling depot where residents of the London borough of Southwark off brokenunwanted electrical devices. Link:

Few foresaw the waste crisis that plagued Massachusetts in the 2030s. By 2029, global recycling markets had collapsed, and every Massachusetts landfill was closed. All state waste was exported to distant places like Alabama and Mississippi, at exorbitant prices. For mainland municipalities, the cost of disposal doubled, and transportation costs …

Binn Group seeks approval for Perthshire facility it says would prevent landfill of non-recyclable rubbish Link:

It’s not happening in a land far away, it’s not condemned to the past slavery is here in the 21st century, happening in organisations around the country, and could be closer than you think. Link:

Coffee is a big deal. While just a handful of countries dominate production, it’s consumed in vast amounts almost everywhere on the planet: around 2 billion cups are drunk every day. Link:

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A Loughborough student is balancing her university life with helping women cross cultural barriers and get jobs in her home city of Mumbai. Link:

How is the world going to feed nearly 10 billion people while also advancing economic development and meeting the challenge of climate change? This has become one of the paramount questions of our time. Reducing food loss and waste is part of the answer.