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More than two billion people lack access to decent sanitation. Innovative sanitation technologies can bring toilets into the 21st century with benefits for the developing and developed world.
Highly-alkaline industrial waste is usually sent to landfill. But while it might be dangerous, it’s also useful.
The ‘linear economy’ that drove 20th-century leaps in wealth is no longer sustainable, and our standard of living will not survive without a dramatic redesign.
Dumpster diving: a way to recycle and reduce food waste.
How can we live within the means of our planet? Almost all environmental literature grossly underestimates what is needed for our civilisation to become sustainable.
Using waste from fruit has many benefits to industries.
Dead whales can cost beachside ratepayers a lot to clean up. The alternative is to tow them away before they wash up - but the legal question of who does the job is far more complex than it sounds.
Four decades after South Australia’s container deposit scheme began, New South Wales has finally overcome industry resistance and launched its own. Could the rest of the country now follow suit?
You might have heard the oceans are full of plastic, but how full exactly? Around 8 million metric tonnes go into the oceans each year, according to the first rigorous global estimate published in Science…
Could what we flush down the toilet be used to power our homes? Thanks to biogas technology, Australia’s relationship with organic waste – human and animal excreta, plant scraps and food-processing waste…
Protests against a proposed waste incinerator power plant involving thousands of residents took place in southern China over two weekends in mid-September. The demonstrations, in Boluo county, Guangdong…
More than £200m has been spent on failed waste management projects, according to a scathing report by a cross-party group of MPs. The Public Accounts Committee blamed “lax” and “poorly drafted” public-private…
It’s been suggested that a recent fall in recycling rates is due to green fatigue, caused by the confusing number of recycling bins presented to householders for different materials. Recycling rates would…
The average cow drops between 10 and 12 dung pads (also known as “pats”) every day and just one of those cow pads can produce up to 3,000 flies in a fortnight. With more than 28 million cattle in Australia…
The concept of the circular economy has left the realm of academic theory and entered the world of business. The price of natural resources and materials is soaring, and in response to volatile markets…
Treated beer waste can be turned into an alternative material for skin grafts, and as a scaffold to assist with bone regeneration…
New technology allows researchers to capture low temperature (below 100C) waste energy from batteries. Researchers at Stanford…
Plastics comprise around 10% of solid waste in Australia. And while we can recycle certain types, there is a group of particularly stable plastics called thermosets, common in electronic devices, which…
Reducing waste should be uncontroversial. While the government’s newly published waste prevention programme represents an improvement on previous strategies, it could have been – should have been – far…
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Senior Research Officer, BehaviourWorks Australia (Monash Sustainable Development Institute), Monash University
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Research associate, Loughborough University
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Professor of Global Environmental Politics, University of California, Berkeley
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Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Professor of Applied Environmental Science, University of Southampton
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Professor and Principal Scientist, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Associate Professor and Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Principal, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Dean and Head of Project Management, RMIT University
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Emeritus Professor, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University
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PhD Candidate in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor of Resource Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Fellow, University of Leeds
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Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
