Nothing wasted: Industry as an ecosystem
By Trevor Decker Cohen, Shareable
When we learn from the way nutrients are constantly broken down and repurposed in natural systems, we find opportunities for a circular economy everywhere.
Tag: Waste
Share Catch Chile’s waste reduction bus – how behaviour change, new infrastructure and different business models are cutting waste
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
This is the story of the potential for a rapid transformation of the waste crisis illustrated by one social enterprise in Chile, and its work to encourage people in communities and in industry to produce less waste and to recycle more.
What a Waste
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
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.
Putting Things Back where They Should Be – Managing Waste in Naivasha Town
By Wangũi Kamonji, Transition Network
James Kagwe, who runs a waste management collective called ‘Waste to Best’ in Naivasha Town in Kenya’s Rift Valley. His path has taken him from flower growing to street clean-ups, waste collection and waste management.
The toxic price of convenience
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
The desire to make our lives maintenance-free often creates unintended environmental and health consequences. Every decision to transfer a maintenance task to a chemical substance only complicates the goal of creating a healthy environment.
The High Cost of an Easy-Care, Low-Maintenance World
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
By abandoning the duty of maintenance we owe to the objects in our lives, we are distancing ourselves from the physical world and essentially sending the entropy elsewhere for someone else to deal with, whether human or non-human.
The Garbage-loving Environmentalist
By Cassandra Kuyvenhoven, Uneven Earth
In exploring these ideas, Lise tells an accessible and engaging story that you just can’t help but put your hands on.
Efficiency Is Not the Enemy of Resiliency
By Karen Lynn Allen, Karen Lynn Allen blog
On a simplistic level, efficiency is maximum (or optimal) output with minimum waste.
Competing Visions of Sustainability: Scarcity or Abundance?
By Bill Sheehan, Upstream
In this essay I explore how assumptions of nature’s Scarcity and Abundance underlie our visions of sustainability, and our prescriptions for action.
Gleaning: an Ancient Custom that May Return in the Future
By Ugo Bardi, Resource Crisis
Gleaning is an ancient tradition, deeply embedded in the agricultural world.
New Lives for Old Objects
By Barnabé Binctin, Future Perfect
In Montreuil, the Collecterie resource center is fighting waste by recycling trash—and generating jobs.
Recycling in the Anthropocene
By Bill Sheehan, Upstream
Individualized recycling is a start but it is not doing nearly enough.