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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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The role of waste to energy – supporting the move to a low carbon and circular economy

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 …

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Island composting program a great idea

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:

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