Category "Waste"

The people of Kamikatsu have Zen-like patience when it comes to recycling. The Village aims to go “zero waste” and has 45 separate categories of recycling items.

Annual consumption of plastic bottles is set to top half a trillion by 2021, far outstripping recycling efforts and jeopardising oceans, coastlines and other environments.

Australians, for example, landfill 2,500 tonnes of waste per hour, every hour, of every day, 365 days a year.

Compostable packaging is the innovation needed to tackle the problem of plastic pollution, writes Daphna Nissenbaum CEO and Founder of TIPA.

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Italy’s port city of Genoa is making bioplastics from agro-waste. The institute has tied up with the city’s central vegetable market for sourcing raw material.

Researchers at IBM developed a catalytic chemical process that digests certain plastics, like PET, into a substance that can directly be reused in the manufacturing of new plastic.

The co-founder of the Restart Project, shares the ways policymakers, designers and citizens can support a people-centred circular economy.

Klöckner Pentaplast (kp) has embarked on a four-year collaboration project in Pravia, Spain, to recover plastics from general domestic waste collections. If successful, it could be rolled out nationwide.

Partner aus Forschung und Industrie wollen in Bayern eine Demonstrationsanlage errichten, mit der erstmals auch Verpackungen aus Kunststoffverbünden recycelt werden können.

Here is why some plastic packaging is necessary to prevent food waste and protect the environment.