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Waste
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Here’s How To Care For Your Phone And The Environment
The Earth is already suffering due to decades of toxic waste from all sorts and kinds of different…
How To Start A Zero Waste Lifestyle (And Stick To It)
The way that we live our lives in the 21st century has changed immeasurably and is barely recognisable…
Recycling Your Trash Is Very Important – Here’s Why
There was a time when no one paid much attention to recycling. Today, however, and as the world…
How We Can Recycle More Buildings
More than 35 billion tonnes of non-metallic minerals are extracted from the Earth every year. These materials mainly…
Super Circular Economy: Can Waste Manage Waste?
Last February, I got the chance to visit a sustainability conference in a small town named Ukhrul in the Manipur…
As more developing countries reject plastic waste exports, wealthy nations seek solutions at home
Less than two years after China banned most imports of scrap material from abroad, many of its neighbors…
If you recycled all the plastic garbage in the world, you could buy the NFL, Apple and Microsoft
This year, I served on the judging panel for The Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Year.…
Will Smart Technology Solve The Urban Waste Crisis?
The migration of people into the world’s urban centres has created crisis levels of waste. According to the…
This African City Is Turning A Mountain Of Trash Into Energy
Africa is the world’s fastest-urbanizing continent. But while city life has helped lift millions out of poverty, the…
Why Our Cities Need To Go On A Resource Diet
Cities are the epicentres of human activity. They cover less than 2% of the earth’s land surface but…
America Is So Wasteful, Time To Use It To Its Advantage
A few cities are using leftovers to power buses and buildings. Americans funnel 40 percent of it into…
Why Nanotech’s Best Benefits In Africa Begins With Our Waste
A cheap, easy to maintain, “green” toilet that uses no water and turns human waste into electricity and…
What Really Happens To All That Stuff You Recycle
In many municipalities around the country, the days of sorting your recyclables for curbside pickup are long gone,…
Grisly Secrets Of Dealing With Victorian London’s Dead
As well as sewerage, another “waste removal” problem plagued London in the 19th century: the disposal of the…
The Secrets In Sewage
What can a city’s waste reveal about the health of its population? The Centers for Disease Control and…