Aline Tong/Shutterstock January 7, 2021 Health crisis: up to a billion tonnes of waste potentially burned in the open every year Costas Velis, University of Leeds and Ed Cook, University of Leeds Two billion people worldwide lack a dedicated system of waste collection and management.
Infrastructure as art: Jacob van Ruisdael, ‘Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede,’ c. 1670. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam May 15, 2020 Solar farms, power stations and water treatment plants can be attractions instead of eyesores Margaret Birney Vickery, UMass Amherst Are facilities that produce necessities like energy and clean water doomed to be ugly? Not when artists and landscape architects help design them.
Since the Chinese plastic recycling market closed, 58% of New Zealand’s plastic waste goes to countries in South-East Asia. from www.shutterstock.com November 13, 2019 Why municipal waste-to-energy incineration is not the answer to NZ’s plastic waste crisis Trisia Farrelly, Massey University Waste-to-energy incineration has been raised as a solution to the global plastic waste problem, but the technology adds pollution and greenhouse gas emissions and encourages more waste production.