Canadians throw away a lot of food and that waste generates 26 million tonnes of CO2 emissions each year. Solving the ...

Many urban areas have built or are considering building waste-incineration facilities to generate energy. At first glance, it seems like a win-win. You get rid of “garbage” and acquire a new energy ...

Adnan R. Khan is an independent writer and editor based in Amsterdam and Istanbul. If you’re at all concerned about the alarming growth of plastic waste clogging our oceans and leaching toxins into ...

Sixty per cent of Canada’s food is thrown out every year. Together, we could drive that number down to zero. In 2016, my sister, Paula, was working as a chef for a catering company in Toronto. One ...

Back in early 2016, British TV chef and food writer Hugh Fearnley-Wittingstall continued his ‘War on Waste’ series by looking at how difficult it is to recycle disposable coffee cups, despite many ...

Many of us throw items into the garbage without realizing the consequences of our actions. According to a 2019 study of developed countries, Canada is among the worst — in the bottom quartile — when ...

We use a lot of gold in our electrical products. But what do we do with it once the toy has died? It doesn’t matter if it’s a cell phone, camera, computer, battery powered toy or a washing machine – ...

Hospitals around the world generate millions of tonnes of plastic waste annually. Much of this waste comes from single-use items such as face masks, surgical gloves, syringes, IV tubes and sterile ...

Millions of tonnes of asbestos are being removed from buildings around the world – can this dangerous mineral be disposed of permanently? Or even be put to good use? At a small industrial unit in ...

Some ideas are stored in a seedbed of wisdom, ready to germinate when we need them to survive. The motto “recycle or die” surfaced in 1987 when several other activists and I chanced upon a custom ...

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