40 parties, among them major companies such as Unilever, Danone or Coca-Cola, signed the “New Plastic Economy” initiative to reuse and recycle ...
E-waste amount is heavily rising in Asian countries
The United Nations released a new study which finds that electronic waste is rising enormously across Asia. Higher incomes allow millions of people to buy ...
Costa Rica pig farm efficiently produces renewable energy
A pig farm in Costa Rica run by Juan Carlos Saenz produces energy from slurry and slaughterhouse waste which is converted into biogas. The methane gas ...
New smart waste management system in Washington
Washington will test a new intelligent waste management system in Chinatown. It is part of a larger program to make rubbish collection smoother. The bins ...
Japan sends space waste collector to ISS
It is estimated that there are about 100 million pieces of different types of trash in space that were generated by previous exhibitions. In order to ...
How dumpster divers improve food waste
Two dumpster divers report about the experiences they made while diving. After a while they had found and collected so much packaged and unexpired food ...
Recycling the nonrecyclable
The US-based company TerraCycle started in 2002 with the goal to make the idea of waste go extinct. Up to date it has recycled 3.7 billion pieces of waste ...
FoodCloud app to tackle food waste
The Irish social start-up “FoodCloud” developed an app that informs charities when businesses have a surplus of food available. Thus food ...
Another way of recycling coffee cups
The British company “Closed Loop” has collaborated with researchers in the UK to develop a technology that can recycle coffee cups. The ...
Solar-powered Internet-providing trash can
In a pilot project Singapore installed a number of new public trash bins, that provide multiple service. Besides allowing people to dump waste, it provides ...
