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- World Environment Day: How to beat plastic pollution
This World Environment Day, discover 8 groundbreaking innovations tackling plastic pollution—from AI-powered recycling to river waste capture and biodegradable plastics
- How innovation will jumpstart lithium battery recycling
Lithium-ion battery recycling is an important problem we must solve through innovation to provide sustainable solutions for battery material needs It is possible to recycle; we only have to look to the success of lead acid batteries that are largely recycled today The imperative to invest in our lithium-ion battery recycling process is clear
- Survey reveals why people don’t recycle more | World Economic Forum
Well over half of respondents - and much more in some regions - said choosing new products with reusable packaging was the most adoptable zero-waste practice Around half thought avoiding products that are hard to recycle would reduce waste
- 4 charts to show why adopting a circular economy matters
In a circular economy, waste is reduced, reused, recycled or remade If the world adopts a circular economy approach, by 2050, the volume of municipal solid waste could reduce from more than 4 5 billion tonnes a year to less than 2 billion tonnes, according to a new UN report
- 5 unusual waste products recycled into something new | World Economic Forum
Here are 5 companies that have come up with innovative ways to re-use and recycle waste The global waste problem is getting worse The World Bank estimates that without urgent action, the amount of items discarded by humans will increase by 73% by 2050
- Tech helps Egypts informal recyclers build circular economy | World . . .
The zabbaleen are not perceived by the public as recyclers, despite the fact this army of more 50,000 waste processors, 150,000 collectors, sorters, traders and truck drivers, recycle 80% of everything they collect They have always viewed their work as a process of “harvesting” materials, rather than “managing” waste
- Recycling alone wont solve the plastic waste crisis
Some plastic packaging - crisp packets for example - are multi-laminates, with other materials including paper or aluminium combined with the plastic meaning it cannot be processed in the recycling system Other packaging such as flexibles are not economic to recycle Plastic contaminated with food won’t be recycled either
- 5 innovative ways your coffee grounds can be recycled
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