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Pilot will demonstrate how to utilise the green waste that fills 50 of regional landfills and help diminish production of Green House Gases. Link: Pilot will demonstrate how to utilise the green waste that fills 50% of regional landfills and help diminish production of Green House Gases.

The method I&8217m most familiar with is vermicomposting (from the Latin vermis, meaning worm). Link: https://www.providencejournal.com/entertainmentlife/20190315/trash-tutorial-composting-can-be-done-indoors-in-three-ways

With China no longer accepting used plastic and paper, communities are facing steep collection bills, forcing them to end their programsburnbury more waste. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/business/local-recycling-costs.html

Americans are consuming more and more stuff. Now that other countries won’t take our papers and plastics, they’re ending up in the trash. Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/china-has-stopped-accepting-our-trash/584131/

US chemical firm Eastman is developing a process to recycle polyester plastic waste, breaking down the material through a chemical process so that it can then be used in the production of new polymers. Link: https://www.letsrecycle.com/news/latest-news/us-firm-develops-chemical-recycling-process-for-plastic/

Products may be superficially olddamaged but their basic elements can always be reused, the materials engineer says Link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/06/nothing-should-be-classified-waste-veena-sahajwalla-sees-crisis-as-opportunity

Rapid growth in urban population, rise in environmental awareness, and stringent government regulation toward illegal dumping are the major drivers of the waste management market. Link: https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/03/05/1747957/0/en/Global-Waste-Management-Market-to-Reach-484-9-Billion-by-2025-at-6-0-CAGR-Says-Allied-Market-Research.html

The Caterer has switched to a fully compostable starch wrapper for its weekly print magazine, in association with Brita. Link: https://www.thecaterer.com/articles/547862/the-caterer-introduces-fully-compostable-magazine-wrapper

World Wide Fund for Nature‘s report says since the year 2000, the world has used more plastics than in all the years before. Link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/world-entangled-plastic-waste-catastrophe-190305185554140.html

‘Recyclable roads’ could help tackle ocean pollution and be replicated across the UK. Link: https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2019/03/05/new-factory-opens-to-turn-plastic-waste-into-road-surfacing/