An ambitious but controversial plan to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch moves closer to reality this week, with the deployment of an ocean plastic cleanup boom off the coast of the Netherlands in the North Sea.
New Yorker Lauren Singer produces so little waste that she can fit all of her trash from the past two years in a 16 oz. mason jar and now she’s trying to teach the rest of the world how to do the same.
Chinese chemists have developed a remarkably efficient method for converting polyethylene into liquid fuel. If it proves scaleable, it could make a real dent in global plastic pollution.
The FLW Standard is a set of global definitions and reporting requirements designed for companies, countries and others to consistently and credibly measure, report on and manage food loss and waste.
The plant at the Narela-Bawana landfill site will able to tackle 1,300 tonnes of garbage on a daily basis and produce almost 24 mega watts of energy.
Over one million PET bottles will be recycled to construct the Plastic Bottle Village in Panama.
Energizer launches a line of rechargeable, recycled batteries called Recharge.
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Gottlieb Paludan Architects have just won an international competition to design the world's largest waste-to-energy plant in Shenzhen, China.
