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News / Waste

Food for... trash? India's first 'garbage cafe' to offer meals for plastic

...landfills. The Garbage Cafe, inspired by similar cafes that have opened in countries including Cambodia and Belgium, wants to change that. In exchange for one kilogram (2.2 lb) of plastic, the cafe wi...

25 Jul 2019

Food for... trash? India's first 'garbage cafe' to offer meals for plastic

Press Releases / Anellotech

New Anellotech technology tackles plastics pollution by recycling plastic waste into chemicals

...landfills or polluting the ocean. By leveraging Anellotech’s existing Bio-TCatTM process – which converts biomass into bio-based chemicals and biofuels – Plas-TCat has demonstrated e...

17 Dec 2019

New Anellotech technology tackles plastics pollution by recycling plastic waste into chemicals

Scavengers pick through garbage collected at a landfill site in Thailand.

Opinion / Waste

Why we're hunting for treasure—in old landfill sites

...landfill site. BBC Four: The Secret Life Of A Landfill To locate potentially recoverable and valuable metals, we surveyed a section of the landfill using near-surface geophysics, looking for “hot s...

30 Aug 2018

Why we're hunting for treasure—in old landfill sites

News / Waste

Tackling Southeast Asia's plastic waste crisis

...landfilling and incineration, we can turn the crisis into an enormous win that includes job creation in underserved communities, clean power generation and a competitive edge in industrial capabilitie...

28 Aug 2019

Tackling Southeast Asia's plastic waste crisis

News / Energy

Can batteries help to limit bushfire horrors?

...landfills are strewn with these hazardous toxins, with more arriving every day. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), each year Americans throw away more than three billion batter...

10 Jan 2020

Can batteries help to limit bushfire horrors?

Opinion / Lifestyle

Six ways to fill your wardrobe with sustainable clothing

The environmental impact of fashion waste is overwhelming. Every year the UK alone sends 350,000 tones of clothing to landfill. And as the majority of garments are made from oil-based materials like p...

22 Mar 2019

Six ways to fill your wardrobe with sustainable clothing

Opinion / Lifestyle

Don’t waste your dog's poo—compost it

...landfill—you can use dog poo as a sustainable source of fertiliser. Poo problems The waste products of humans and their associated animals have not always been a problem. In the past, even within the ...

28 Dec 2018

Don’t waste your dog's poo—compost it

News / Waste

Repair, refurbish, reuse: call to arms for electronics giants

...landfill waste. “ Some people will always go for the latest and greatest.But we think we can convince people that a good quality, functioning phone, with the aim to change industry into a more sustai...

30 Jan 2019

Repair, refurbish, reuse: call to arms for electronics giants

pedestrians walking in smog in shenyang city china

News / Policy & Finance

The bioaerosols controversy: From public health to the environment

...landfill sites and water treatment plants are all key sources of bioaerosols, but there is no monitoring there of disease-causing bacteria or allergens. Yao explained that this is due to difficulties ...

7 Aug 2020

The bioaerosols controversy: From public health to the environment

Women in China sort through waste plastics to be sent for recycling.

News / Waste

Developing countries turn away from plastic waste imports

...landfill and incineration. The UK is incineratingmore waste and has released its first waste strategy in a decade. Melbourne’s largest waste-handling site could not cope with demand this year, so recy...

14 Jun 2019

Developing countries turn away from plastic waste imports

Opinion / Manufacturing

A new paradigm for plastics

We have long known that the accumulation of plastic in the world’s landfills and oceans represents a growing environmental risk. More recently, we have come to understand that plastic poses an urgent—...

7 Mar 2019

A new paradigm for plastics

News / Corporate Responsibility

How I got here... Kay Vasey, founder, MeshMinds

...landfill. How did your partnership with the UN start? It was through an Eco-Business event. When we began in 2018, we had no partnerships. After hosting a show, MeshMinds 1.0, at ArtScience Museum, I ...

17 Jun 2020

How I got here... Kay Vasey, founder, MeshMinds

Press Releases / Blue Planet Environmental Solutions

Blue Planet acquires British company Smart Creative in a bid to tackle Asia's growing e-waste problem

...landfill, and is aligned with Blue Planet’s vision of providing solutions that cater to the triple bottom line of protecting the environment, benefitting people and achieving prosperity. Blue P...

17 Jul 2019

Blue Planet acquires British company Smart Creative in a bid to tackle Asia's growing e-waste problem

News / Waste

UK appoints first champion to tackle 'moral scandal' of food waste

...landfills where it rots, releasing greenhouse gases, while fuel, water, and energy needed to grow, store and carry it is wasted. “ As a nation, we need to stop this excessive waste and ensure that su...

2 Jan 2019

UK appoints first champion to tackle 'moral scandal' of food waste

Press Releases / IUCN

First standardised guidelines to measure plastic pollution in corporate value chains published by the Plastic Leak Project

...landfill or leaked into the environment (Geyer et al. 2017). Growing awareness around the environmental impact and scale of plastic pollution has made the issue a top priority and risk for businesses...

28 Feb 2020

First standardised guidelines to measure plastic pollution in corporate value chains published by the Plastic Leak Project

News / Corporate Responsibility

Apps and blockchain help European supermarkets lure climate-conscious consumers

...landfill. Intensive farming, meanwhile, is a major cause of accelerating soil erosion, as it strips away the highly fertile top layer, which could threaten global food production, experts have warned....

28 Feb 2020

Apps and blockchain help European supermarkets lure climate-conscious consumers

Coal miners at Lao Ye Temple Mine in Shanxi, China

News / Carbon & Climate

Scientists concerned by ‘record high’ global methane emissions

...landfills. These estimates are added together with model simulations of other sources of methane, such as wetlands, wildfires and termites. Satellite data on the global area burned by fires, for examp...

16 Jul 2020

Scientists concerned by ‘record high’ global methane emissions

Press Releases / MyMizu

Japan social innovation nonprofit launches first free water refill app MyMizu

...landfill, or simply lost to waterways and the oceans annually. Through the app, users can: Access 8,000+ points across Japan to refill their bottles Discover new places (cafes, restaurants, hot...

25 Sep 2019

Japan social innovation nonprofit launches first free water refill app MyMizu

Coca-Cola, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever top polluters 2019

News / Waste

Coke, Nestlé and Pepsi top plastic polluter audit again as green groups slam recyclable packaging as 'false solution'

...landfill, polluting our oceans,” Hernandez said. “Over the next 30 years, the amount of plastic waste is set to quadruple,” he warned. A call for 'alternative delivery systems' Environmentalists urge...

24 Oct 2019

Coke, Nestlé and Pepsi top plastic polluter audit again as green groups slam recyclable packaging as 'false solution'