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The ACT was the first Australian jurisdiction to require public event organisers, vendors, and caterers to use reusable, recyclable, or compostable alternatives.

But for many vendors and waste advocates, it is window dressing, with nearly all of it ending up in landfill because there is no facility to compost it.

The ACT government says waterproof and non-stick coatings on many seemingly compostable products should not be composted, which adds to the complexity.

There is something very wholesome happening at ACT events when you are eating your food truck treats from a compostable plate, with compostable cutlery and sipping from a compostable cup.

The ACT mandates reusable, recyclable and compostable packaging at all public events, but nearly all of it ends up in landfill because there is no facility to compost it.

Debbie Clifford pours hundreds of coffees every Saturday morning at the Capital Region Farmers Market, and is demoralised by the lack of action.

We re being sold a lie, Ms Clifford said.

It says compostable, but it s going straight to landfill.

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Straight to landfill: Compostable packaging but nowhere to compost it

I toured the Thika Semi-aerobic Sanitary Landfill, that is under-construction at the Kang’oki dumpsite in Thika. Kiambu County Government is …

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JAKARTA, June 13 (Xinhua) — Indonesia’s Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries has been preparing an incentive and disincentive scheme for regional governments as part of a national waste management policy aimed at preventing marine pollution, a senior official has said.

“Regions that still have waste leaking into the sea will receive disincentives. Those who have successfully managed their waste properly will be given incentives and awards,” the ministry’s Director General of Marine Spatial Management Koswara said at a recent press conference.

Indonesia is estimated to see around 20 million tons of waste entering the sea each year. Koswara said the issue could not be solved by relying solely on the state budget, but required cooperation between local governments, businesses, and communities.

Koswara emphasized that the condition of the sea is highly influenced by land-based activities, noting that plastic waste polluting the ocean originates from human activity.

“Waste does not appear in the sea by itself. We are the ones producing plastic waste, so we must manage it, reduce it, and ensure it does not end up in the ocean,” he said. ■

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Indonesia prepares incentive scheme to curb marine waste pollution

Every day, the city of Rio de Janeiro, one of the largest metropolises in the Southern Hemisphere, generates 17,000 tonnes of waste, ranging from large industrial debris to candy wrappers bought innocently at newspaper stands. While this waste presents a serious and urgent environmental challenge, it also fuels an increasingly significant portion of the economy, with benefits extending beyond financial gains.

– When we look at developed European countries, many are already recycling between 40% and 50%, with some reaching 60%. From an economic standpoint, both recyclable materials and organic waste hold tremendous value – stated Adalberto Maluf, National Secretary for Environment and Environmental Quality at the Ministry of the Environment (MMA), during the Methane Forum: Climate Emergency Brake, at the Rio Nature and Climate Week.

Citing a 2025 report, Maluf mentioned that Brazil literally throws away R$27 billion annually, while municipalities spend significantly more – R$45 billion – managing all this waste, often overlooking the environmental impact or economic potential buried in landfills and dumps.

– We spend R$45 billion to collect and dispose of waste in landfills, yet we manage to recycle less than a third of the potential. I believe it will be necessary to review contracts, create performance-based remuneration mechanisms, and pay for both effectively sorted materials and those diverted from landfills – he added.

According to the IBGE, 60.5% of Brazilian municipalities adopt some form of selective waste collection, and several initiatives serve as examples of how to manage city waste. In his panel presentation, Bernardo Ornelas, Project Coordinator at the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Urban Cleaning Company (Comlurb), highlighted Ecoparque do Caju, a national benchmark in waste management and recycling. There, received materials are sorted and can be used for biogas production, organic compounds for urban gardens, or human consumption, in the case of still…

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Waste management poses challenges, but could unlock major environmental and economic gains

Ana Catalina Suarez Pena, senior director of strategy and innovation at the Global FoodBanking Network, warned on Monday that organic waste generated by food loss is driving greenhouse gas emissions and accelerating global warming, noting that food systems have been included in every COP agenda since COP28.

Speaking to Anadolu at the Zero Waste Forum, Suarez highlighted what she called a stark global paradox. At the same time, 2.5 billion people are facing food insecurity across the globe. There is a paradox — on one hand we are losing and wasting food, on the other, people are facing hunger and food insecurity, she said, noting that food banks serve to interconnect these two urgent conversations.

Suarez noted that around 20 percent of global methane emissions come from organic waste, with approximately 77 percent of that organic waste comprising food waste. She stressed that when a food bank prevents one ton of food from being wasted, it also prevents 2.6 tons of CO2 emissions from being generated. She added that reducing organic waste is the fastest way to meet climate commitments while making food available for people in need.

The senior director said ways to prevent food waste will be addressed at COP31 under the zero waste package. The most important step we need to take is to prevent food loss and waste from the outset, because the best waste is the one you never generate. Our expectation from COP31 is that the waste agenda takes a very important place, she said, explaining that discussions with the COP31 presidency seek to establish incentives and a clear agenda for reduction.

Michael Oko, vice president of communications and marketing at the Global FoodBanking Network, told Anadolu that preventing food waste also prevents the release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. He noted that food waste accounts for around 8-10 percent of all emissions, making it a major share of the total, yet only about 4 percent of global climate finance is currently direc…

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Food waste drives methane emissions, experts warn

La localidad zaragozana de Fuentes de Ebro se ha convertido en el nuevo epicentro de la sostenibilidad en la región con la puesta en marcha de una infraestructura de vanguardia que promete dar que hablar. Veolia ha decidido apostar fuerte por este territorio con una instalación que combina el tratamiento de residuos orgánicos y la producción de energía limpia, lo que supone un soplo de aire fresco para la economía circular local que tanto se busca potenciar hoy en día.

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Nueva planta de compostaje y biomasa de Veolia en Zaragoza

Piensa en el último smartphone, tablet o smartwatch que dejaste de usar. Lo más probable es que no esté en un contenedor de reciclaje ni en manos de un nuevo propietario; Está guardado en un cajón.

En nuestra encuesta a 4,000 consumidores estadounidenses, descubrimos que lo más común que hacía la gente con un dispositivo que había terminado era no tener nada en absoluto: el 39% simplemente lo almacenaba. El reciclaje y la reventa, mejores resultados para el medio ambiente, cada uno representaba solo alrededor de 1 de cada 10 dispositivos. Tirar los dispositivos a la basura reclamó otro 9%.

Financiado por la National Science Foundation, nuestro equipo multidisciplinar combinó nuestra experiencia en inferencia causal, sostenibilidad y ciberseguridad para trabajar en la enredada cuestión de qué hacen las personas con sus productos electrónicos de consumo cuando terminan de usarlos. Utilizamos modelos estadísticos para conectar lo que la gente dice —es decir, su conocimiento y actitudes declaradas— con lo que realmente hicieron.

Dos fuerzas principales mantienen los dispositivos en el cajón. La primera es la ansiedad por los datos. Las personas que temían que reciclar o revender un dispositivo comprometiera sus datos tenían un 14% y un 9% más de probabilidades de almacenarlos en su lugar.

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Por qué no podemos dejar atrás nuestros viejos gadgets y cables y qué podemos hacer al respecto

La idea de Bruselas es que los fabricantes asuman la responsabilidad total sobre el achatarramiento

Hace solo unas horas que Bruselas aprobaba una de las normas que más puede afectar al automóvil en los próximos años. La intención del nuevo Reglamento de Vehículos Fuera de Uso (ELVR) es que la responsabilidad del achatarramiento de los coches recaiga sobre los fabricantes de automóviles, que, lógicamente, deben asumir también el coste integral del reciclaje.

La intención de Bruselas es regular las emisiones de los automóviles durante todo su ciclo de vida útil, es decir desde la cuna (fabricación) hasta su reciclaje, pasando por las emisiones derivadas de su utilización, esta es precisamente la parte del ciclo de vida que recae sobre el propietario.

Bruselas quiere obligar a las marcas a que durante la fabricación de los coches nuevos utilicen un 15 % de plástico reciclado en un plazo de 6 años y un 25 % a los 10 años, que a su vez debe proceder de otros coches viejos ya reciclados. Una serie de exigencias que afectan incluso al proceso de desmontaje de los coches que debe ser sencillo, fácil y rápido para reducir el tiempo necesario en el proceso.

Los pellets de plástico reciclado van a ser imprescindible en la fabricación de automóvles

A nivel macroeconómico, la adaptación del automóvil a esta nueva normativa podría tener un coste para el sector de unos 1.000 millones de euros, que, de acuerdo con Bruselas, en parte estaría financiado por el ahorro en la compra de materias primas gracias al reciclaje y en las multas por emisiones de CO2.

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Bruselas obliga por ley a las marcas a pagar el achatarramiento de los coches que fabrican

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Buried or cremated? The new option is human composting

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