For decades, three arrows pointing in a triangular loop have been the iconic symbol for recycling, but that could change. The Environmental Protection Agency — along with thousands of ...

The increasing amounts of municipal solid waste and ineffective waste management systems threaten the environment and contribute to climate warming, yet the waste sector is often neglected in ...

As vibrant colours continue to illuminate various sectors of the global economy, another quiet yet powerful transformation is currently underway — the rise of the circular economy. Anchored on the ...

Electronic waste at Agbogbloshie - Accra,Ghana. Image © Wikimedia User Muntaka Chasant licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International ...

Hannah Blumhardt is a researcher for Āmiomio Aotearoa - a trans-disciplinary, multi-partner research project into the circular economy funded by the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment ...

We extract more than 100 billion tonnes of raw materials from Earth each year, then throw most of them away. The “circular economy” offers a different approach: instead of the linear “take-make-waste” ...

At home in Venice, a family enjoys a plate of mouth-watering polenta e schie, a local delicacy of tiny shrimp on a bed of creamy polenta. In the kitchen a pan of cooking oil is cooling on the stove, ...

A circular economy is an economic system aimed at eliminating waste and the continual use of resources. Looking beyond the current take-make-waste extractive industrial model, a circular economy aims ...