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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:

Seattle, Washington, will soon become home to the world‘s first "human composting" site, a place where individuals can have their postmortem remains slowly decompose into soil. Link to full article

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), food waste refers to the “decrease in the quantityquality of food resulting from decisions and actions by retailers, food service providers, and consumers” (http://www.fao.org/food-loss-and-food-waste/en/). Link to full article

Shayna EcoUnified founded by Paras Saluja and Sandeep Nagpal partners with scrap dealers and NGOs to procure plastic waste, which is then used to produce tiles. Link to full article

Elangovan E.V. filed a complaint with the Chennai Corporation about public health issues caused by a decentralised waste management facility in a residential area of Kilpauk on December 30, 2019. Link to full article

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 …

Recycling may feel good, but in practice, it often just means dumping plastic in Southeast Asia for other countries to deal with. And when they can’t, plastic often ends up in landfill anyway. So how to remedy the situation? Link to full article