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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 cant, plastic often ends up in landfill anyway. So how to remedy the situation? Link to full article
Mais »Danish company Too Good To Go eyes new American front against global food waste
App has saved more than 5,000 bags of Starbucks leftovers in Poland Link to full article
Mais »How student, 19, is empowering women and tackling Indias industrial waste crisis at the same time
A Loughborough student is balancing her university life with helping women cross cultural barriers and get jobs in her home city of Mumbai. Link to full article
Mais »Recycling robot ‘Daisy‘ part of Apple‘s effort to end mining for resources
Apple‘s efforts to improve its recycling has an end goal of becoming a "closed-loop" manufacturer in the future, an extremely difficult goal to accomplish, and one that would end the need to mine for new materials if achieved by the iPhone maker. Link to full article
Mais »Recycling is becoming so expensive that some towns dont know what to do
WESTFIELD On a recent afternoon here, with urgency in the air, local officials huddled to consider what until recently was unthinkable. Should they abandon their popular curbside recycling program? Or spend millions to build a plant to process plastic and paper on their own? Link to full article
Mais »Your next pair of sneakers could be made from coffee
Coffee is a big deal. While just a handful of countries dominate production, its consumed in vast amounts almost everywhere on the planet: around 2 billion cups are drunk every day. Link to full article
Mais »Mobile QUBE Renewable Anaerobic Digestion Tech to Tackle Delhis Air Quality Crisis
Somerset, UK based transportable anaerobic digestion specialist, QUBE Renewables, is working on a project in India with Haryana University to install fifty QUBES in the paddy fields of the Punjab in a bid to tackle Delhis air quality crisis. Link:
Mais »Indian Government to tighten restrictions on the import of mixed papers
The Indian Government is set to enforce restrictions on imports of mixed paper in a crackdown on the import of contaminated and illegal waste. Link:
Mais »IN DEPTH: Waste to Aviation Fuel – Time for Take-off?
While a previous project didnt quite achieve take-off, the airline has now teamed up Altalto Immingham, a subsidiary of Velocys, and Shell on a plant to turn 500,000 TPA of MSW into jet fuel. Link:
Mais »Waste-to-Energy Sector Welcomes New Ambitious Standards for Health and Environmental Protection
After a 5-year review process, the Best Available Techniques Conclusions for Waste Incineration were published in the Official Journal of the EU. Link:
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