Fifteen years ago, a small group of professionals in the recycling industry noticed something that others missed. At that time, sustainability and waste solutions were just a compliance exercise ...

Recycle Away aims to reshape waste and recycling by blending systems thinking with real human behavior. Under CEO Julianna Doherty’s leadership, the women-run company uses design, empathy, and lived ...

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With the increasing population worldwide, waste generation is multiplying uncontrollably. Municipalities find it challenging to manage such wastes for further separation, recycling, transformation and ...

Evidence of the economic opportunities that a circular economy could bring is mounting. The potential environmental impact is also clear. The move to a circular economy—a system that aims to reduce, ...

Waste management has evolved from a linear model of “take–make–dispose” to a more sustainable framework predicated on reduction, reuse and recycling within a circular economy. Contemporary strategies ...

Ripple Glass has become a thriving business turning discarded bottles and jars into fiberglass insulation, flooring and more. 2009 Star file photo English poet William Wordsworth may have been right ...

There is a glaring lack of tracking for global recycling. Poor waste management is deeply connected to climate change, plastic pollution and global nutrient imbalances globally. To shift to ...