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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

App has saved more than 5,000 bags of Starbucks leftovers in Poland Link to full article

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

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

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

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 to full article