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Can urban mining help to save the planet?

March 30, 2022 by Tansy Hoskins

“When we talk about urban mining, we’re talking about mining what we have already made and brought into an urban context.”

Categories Act: Inspiration, Act: Inspiration featured, Economy, Economy featured, Environment Tags circular economy, recycling, urban mining Leave a comment

Facing Mexico’s zero-waste challenge

February 28, 2022 by Diana Leon

Grassroots organizations in Mexico are promoting inclusive recycling by helping usher trash pickers, or pepenadores, into the salaried workforce. In the endeavor, they draw on positive experiences around the developing world.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Act: Inspiration featured, Environment, Environment featured Tags circular economy, recycling, waste pickers, zero waste Leave a comment

Throwaway people or valued environmental service providers?

February 16, 2022 by Diana Leon

By collecting and separating reusable or recyclable materials of their own accord, unsalaried waste pickers relieve the growing burden of mismanaged municipal solid waste.

Categories Environment, Environment featured Tags circular economy, recycling, workers' rights Leave a comment

Nothing wasted: Industry as an ecosystem

June 15, 2021June 15, 2021 by Trevor Decker Cohen

When we learn from the way nutrients are constantly broken down and repurposed in natural systems, we find opportunities for a circular economy everywhere.

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What a Waste

March 18, 2019 by Richard Heinberg

Why not make the economy circular, with waste from one process feeding into other production processes, thus dramatically reducing the need both for resource extraction and for the dumping of rubbish? We should mimic nature: it’s a central ideal of the ecology movement, with roots in indigenous wisdom worldwide.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Economy, Environment, Environment featured Tags circular economy, recycling, Waste 1 Comment

What Will we Do with all those Solar Panels when their Useful Life is Over?

April 12, 2018 by Nate Berg

But the solar panels generating that power don’t last forever. The industry standard life span is about 25 to 30 years, and that means that some of the panels installed at the early end of the current boom aren’t long from being retired.

Categories Energy, Energy featured, Environment Tags recycling, solar panels Leave a comment

Paaduks: Shoes with Soul

December 15, 2020October 12, 2015 by Manisha SG

What does it take to upcycle any waste material into a product that is beautiful, serves a basic function and will prevent that material from ending up in a landfill for a few more years?

Categories Society Tags new economy, recycling, social enterprise, upcycling Leave a comment

New Lives for Old Objects

December 15, 2020April 23, 2015 by Barnabé Binctin

In Montreuil, the Collecterie resource center is fighting waste by recycling trash—and generating jobs.

Categories Society Tags recycling, upcycling, Waste Leave a comment

Recycling in the Anthropocene

December 15, 2020March 13, 2015 by Bill Sheehan

Individualized recycling is a start but it is not doing nearly enough.

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Talkin’ trash: Are we literally throwing away energy?

December 15, 2020June 8, 2014 by Kurt Cobb

In Germany only about 1 percent of all municipal waste goes into landfills. This compares with about 68 percent in the United States. The U.S. could recycle more and turn much more of the residual waste into energy.

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Leading San Francisco’s Quest To Recycle All Trash by 2020

December 15, 2020May 23, 2014 by Cheryl Katz

San Francisco, the first urban area in the nation to mandate recycling and composting and begin outlawing items like Styrofoam food containers, aims to completely eliminate the trash it sends to landfills by 2020.

Categories Environment Tags composting, recycling, zero waste Leave a comment

The Aztecs of Mexico: A Zero Waste Society

December 15, 2020April 29, 2014 by Martin Medina

While technological innovation is often seen as the answer to modern waste problems, what can we learn from the historical methods used by great ancient societies such as the Aztecs of Mexico?

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