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Beverage cartons are the focus of a new initiative run by Circular Action, a BV Rio group company, in partnership with Tetra Pak and Packaging Recycling Organisation Vietnam (PRO Vietnam). The pilot project intends to provide a recycling solution and deliver additional income to around 200 informal waste pickers. Link …

This (surprisingly) not-gross project gives you a steady supply of plant food. Link to full article

"I‘ve been using plastic film since I started growing flue-cured tobacco. In the past, the waste plastic film was discarded in the farmland and the river, which presented a shocking scene. Link to full article

The leader of Edinburgh Council has said the mountains of rubbish on its streets has brought “into sharp focus” the value of its waste and cleaning workers. Link to full article

The objections to gasification have not changed since the technology was invented: too expensive, too maintenance-intensive, not efficient enough in comparison with conventional incineration. Only Japan has been able to do better. Why is this? Link to full article

Composting does not only help get rid of biowaste while creating useful fertilizer and planting soil. Compost piles also produce heat. Heat that can be used as renewable energy to heat houseswater. Link to full article

No one said implementing SB 1383 would be easy. Well, except possibly someone in San Francisco, a city that has been successfully collecting food scraps for 25 years and has already set a North American record for composting and recycling. Link to full article

The local authority believes it would be the first in the country to collect the waste in this way, although it noted a similar scheme was already under way in Paris. Link to full article

How to build (and tend) your very own pile of green gold. Link to full article

A new study led from the University of Waterloo discovered greenhouse gas production is significantly less when biobased residues like compost replaces widely used nitrogen fertilizer during spring freeze-thaw events in cold temperate regions. Link to full article