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- 5 innovative ways your coffee grounds can be recycled
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Why is black plastic packaging so hard to recycle? - The World Economic . . .
This black plastic packaging is hard to recycle Image: WRAP The material is so hard to recycle that some of the UK’s biggest supermarkets have pledged to stop using it in their own product ranges by the end of 2019, with others set to follow by the end of 2020
- Accelerating reuse models to achieve a world free of plastic waste
Last year, the Consumers Beyond Waste initiative released a seminal guide on standardized reuse measurement, which was a culmination of working group member inputs, reuse metrics testing outcomes and team recommendations
- 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
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