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The Pepenadores Project (Mexico) appears on a French News Website
L’Express is one of France’s best known weekly newsmagazines. On its website, an entire section is dedicated to “Business with a meaning”; it highlights business initiatives that contribute to changing...
View ArticleCircular economy isn’t just recycling products; repair and reuse are also vital
Until now, the focus of the circular economy has been primarily on designing products for easier disassembling and recycling – the « outer circle » – which implies creating a closed loop of materials....
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Clean Water For The Phillippines, From Car Batteries And Kentucky College...
After major global disasters, the standard advice on how to help is to give money to the big, reliable aid organizations. But small efforts that can leverage smart technology and local connections fill...
View Article5 steps toward going ‘zero waste’ in the bathroom
Here are the most significant changes one can make in the bathroom: 1. Minimize the plastic Choose a single multipurpose soap for the whole family to use, instead of buying individual body washes and...
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Recycling, upcycling and women’s empowerment: how Gambia tackles the waste issue
Human life generates tremendous amounts of waste and handling it is a major environmental issue for today and the future. Waste generates greenhouse gases when it is created, collected, destroyed and...
View ArticleDanone supports the development of bioplastics by strengthening its...
On 5 June, Avantium announced that it had closed a financing round of €36 million ($50 million) from a consortium of iconic strategic players: Swire Pacific, The Coca-Cola Company, Danone, ALPLA, and...
View ArticleThese 7 amazing recycling facts will make you think twice
Next time you finish that Diet Coke, decide to replace your cell phone, or toss that outdated phone book, take a moment to think about your next step. Before you head to your trash bin, ask yourself if...
View ArticleIn Beijing, You Can Pay For Train Rides With Plastic Bottles
Beijing is now taking its own approach by giving free train rides and mobile phone top-ups to people redeeming used plastic. Machines in 34 locations take bottle deposits and calculate their worth,...
View ArticleThese short films sum up the huge, ridiculous problem of food waste
The world currently wastes 30% of all food that it produces, and there are two main reasons why that is such a tragedy. The first is obvious. The calories could go to feeding people who are hungry. But...
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The Big Apple bans plastic foam containers
After San Francisco, Seattle and Portland, New York has decided to ban plastic foam in 2015. New York City’s Waste employees stopped recycling polystyrene foam on January 1, 2015. A transition period...
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Towards Ever Smarter Waste Recycling
With Rubicon Global, one click, and your waste is collected The US start-up Rubicon Global : the media are calling it the Uber of waste management. The media are calling it the Uber of waste...
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Moving toward smart sustainable packaging: spotlight on innovations
290 million tons of plastic waste are now being produced every year, compared with 1.5 million tons in the 1950s. If nothing is done to change our current trajectory, given the growth rate of...
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1,001 lives of plastic bottles
Although they have their own dedicated yellow bins, many of them are still sent off outside the beaten paths of recycling. This is the case of 4 out of every 10 bottles in France, according to ADEME....
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A global overview of innovative recycling solutions
Improving conditions for recycling workers As with many developing countries, part of the recycling process often falls to waste pickers. To improve waste management, together with living and working...
View ArticleTrending: finally, end-of-life solutions for two of our least recyclable...
First, as part of Québec’s 2013-2020 Action Plan on Climate Change, the Green Fund granted $5 million to assist PureSphera for a project in refrigeration appliance recycling. Recycling refrigerators...
View ArticleOnly 14% of plastics are recycled – can tech innovation tackle the rest?
The world recycles just 14% of the plastic packaging it uses. Even worse: 8m tons of plastic, much of it packaging, ends up in the oceans each year, where sea life and birds die from eating it or...
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