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Waste

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.

Categories Environment Tags climate change, recycling, Waste Leave a comment

Sustainability for Whom?

December 15, 2020March 5, 2015 by Bill Sheehan

Is eco-business leading us to ecological sustainability?

Categories Society Tags circular economy, Consumerism, sustainable consumption, Waste Leave a comment

Socially Smart Sanitation

December 15, 2020January 20, 2015 by John Thackara

What if sanitation is not just about the kit? If sanitation solutions cannot be mass-produced at will, like a box of software, what, then, is the alternative?

Categories Society Tags sanitation, Waste Leave a comment

Waste Not

December 15, 2020June 20, 2014 by Alex Wise

Hear about an online sharing system where no currency changes hands, and no new materials are used to make more stuff.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Society Tags agriculture, industrial farming, reuse, Waste, waste reduction Leave a comment

EcoBricks and Education

December 15, 2020May 31, 2014 by Rob Hopkins

It began in Guatemala, and now a South African town is using recycling bottles as building material as part of an inspirational and regenerative campaign against rubbish

Categories Act: Inspiration, Environment Tags Building, plastic, reuse, Waste Leave a comment

Putting Boundaries on Selling Stuff

December 15, 2020January 7, 2014 by Bill Sheehan

My theory of change is that governments are essential to controlling corporate power and that government is strengthened by civic rather than consumer action.

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Share N Save: Putting “avoid” ahead of reduce, reuse and recycle

December 15, 2020December 19, 2013 by Cat Johnson

To truly get to zero waste, you’d need to go beyond recycling into reduce and reuse. In South Australia, they’re experimenting with how to take this one step further by adding “avoid” to the top of the waste management hierarchy.

Categories Environment Tags Consumption & Demand, Waste, zero waste Leave a comment

How Whales Become Hazardous Waste

December 15, 2020September 19, 2013 by Stuart Jeanne Bramhall

The main theme of a new documentary, Trashed: No Place for Waste…is the major health danger posed by the 7 billion tons of garbage we discard every year.

Categories Environment Tags hazardous waste, recycling, Waste Leave a comment

The People’s Design Lab – Taking the un-recyclable out of your bin

December 15, 2020June 13, 2013 by Emma Hallett

Even when you have done all you can to reduce, reuse and recycle items, there can be a frustrating amount of stuff still in your bin. The People’s Design Lab offers a new solution.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Society Tags Community Involvement, design, Waste Leave a comment

Much ado about phosphorus

December 15, 2020May 29, 2013 by Amy Huva

The problem here is, that we’ve switched from a closed loop system where the waste from the farm house goes into the farm yard and all the phosphorus can recycle, to a linear system where the phosphorus gets mined…

Categories Food & Water Tags agriculture, fertiliser crisis, peak phosphorus, Waste Leave a comment

So Much Wasted Energy – Rethinking food waste

December 15, 2020May 20, 2013 by Philip Ackerman-Leist

Regardless of terminology, one point is writ clear: the most technologically and economically advanced cultures in the world have the highest rates of food waste on the planet

Categories Food & Water Tags Food, food waste, Local Food Shift, Waste Leave a comment
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