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The Race for Plastic Waste Innovation

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:

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Putting an end to plastic waste

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 to full article

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Ankara wastepickers struggle to be formally incorporated into the legal waste collecting framework, Turkey

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

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Montreal’s Top Chefs Join Forces to Fight Food Waste and Feed the Homeless With the City’s Leftovers

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

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The Race for Plastic Waste Innovation

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

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World’s First Human Composting Facility for Funeral Services Will Open in 2021

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

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