Category "Waste"

A growing number of startups are focused on providing containers and food-service items that can stay in circulation for weeks, months or years - and are recyclable at the end of life.

BPA, PET, HDPE. You’re trying to do the right thing by recycling, following health alerts and shopping wisely, but you’re not fluent in molecular chemistry? Here you go.

Bacteria and fungi might conjure up images of diseases and spoiled food, but they also do a lot of good. The billions of microbes in a handful of dead leaves, for example, act as nature's recyclers and regenerate nutrients needed for the next generation of plants to grow.

ChuChu Design is an eco-friendly startup lifting families out of poverty with the art of upcycling.

After years of depressing images of huge fields strewn with abandoned tents and rubbish in the aftermath of music festivals, it was heartening to hear Glastonbury Festival organisers claim that 99% of festival-goers’ tents were picked up after the festival.

Deborah Williams takes a look at the current state of the compostable packaging market, the misconceptions around it and where it could go in the next five to ten years.

Here is everything you need to understand recycling contamination facts, common contaminants, and how you can help make move our planet toward a more circular economy.

This calculator lets you figure out–and visualize–the giant pile of plastic your habits end up creating.

Nearly a third of all the food produced in the world is lost or wasted, according to the UN’s World Resources Institute. If we convert this mass into calories, it constitutes nearly a quarter of all food produced.

Transition creates opportunities for Japan´s declining paper industry.