
How Plastic Packaging Waste Can Be Managed Better
Plastic packaging is usually designed around one central...
Deepening the conversation around sanitation, carbon, and conversion. We write to understand what is avoided and uncover value where others see discomfort.

Plastic packaging is usually designed around one central...

The pyrolysis reactor is where one of the most important changes in the entire pyrolysis system takes...

Waste management businesses collect enormous amounts of operational...

Single use plastic creates a strange mismatch between usefulness and...

That description captures the central principle, but it leaves out most of what makes the process...

A company can know exactly how many tonnes of waste it produces and still know surprisingly little about the climate impact of that...

What happens to plastic before processing can determine what becomes possible during...

Waste to energy technology begins with an idea that sounds...

The climate impact of waste is easy to underestimate because most of its journey happens somewhere...

Plastic waste rarely arrives at the end of its useful life in perfect condition. A food container may still carry oil or sauce. Agricultural film can be...

Waste does not simply disappear after we discard it. Many waste materials still contain carbon, energy and chemical compounds that can potentially be...

Littering may seem like a small act. A wrapper dropped on the roadside, a plastic bottle left in a park, or a cigarette butt thrown from a vehicle can...

Plastic has become part of everyday life because it is lightweight, durable and easy to use. It appears in food packaging, household products, clothing...

Waste and climate change are often treated as two separate environmental problems. One is associated with overflowing bins, landfills and discarded...

Plastic supports almost every part of modern life. It protects food, keeps medicines safe, reduces product weight, and helps goods move efficiently...

The carbon footprint of waste begins long before something reaches a landfill, dumping ground or treatment...

Waste disposal problems are no longer limited to overflowing bins or distant landfill sites. They affect the air we breathe, the water we depend on, the...

Multilayer plastic waste has become one of the more complicated materials moving through modern waste systems. At first glance, a food pouch, sachet or...

Waste does not stop affecting the environment after it leaves our homes, offices, industries or public...

The collection vehicle arrives, the bin is emptied, and the waste disappears from the...