Our buildings and infrastructure can only become sustainable if the sector shares, leases, reuses, repairs, refurbishes and recycles materials and products. A new report maps out out how to get there.
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Confusion about what should and shouldn’t be recycled? You’re not alone – and it’s causing some people to ignore recycling altogether.
As a sustainability researcher, I know how quickly we could make big changes to reduce plastic pollution. Here’s what we – both individually and globally – should be doing more of, and what to avoid.
Using leaves for local food packaging is beneficial for health and the environment.
As the energy revolution gains pace, huge numbers of PV panels are already going to landfill. Many are still usable and even those that aren’t contain valuable materials that shouldn’t be discarded.
Companies like it when your phone breaks and you have to buy another. But we’d all save a lot of money if we could actually repair the things we purchased.
The pandemic has seen more and more full-time employees working fully remotely – and seeking out cheaper, warmer places in which to do so. Property price hikes show the impact on local communities.
Experimenting with low-waste living shows it’s not easy being green. But householders can help policymakers design better waste management systems.
Criminals want your waste. Here’s what you can do to help tackle illegal fly-tipping.
The vaping craze sweeping the globe is leaving a legacy of contaiminated e-waste in landfill while waste management authorities scramble to set up recycling schemes.
The planet is entering its sixth mass extinction event. This global nature summit is our best change to stop this tide of destruction.
Product standards have real power. We could use them to reduce waste at every part of the plastic lifecycle.
It’s important to look at the whole value chain in the plastics economy, starting with design of products that can be reused and recycled.
Japanese people had to rely totally on materials already present within the country.
A global treaty on plastic pollution must incentivize a take-make-reuse waste management system and include quantitative targets based on geography-specific emissions.
Plastic waste is a huge problem. To fix it, we need systemic change, not just a focus on picking it up or recycling plastic once it becomes rubbish.
The inside of story of a pioneering programme to convert nitrogen into microalgae that can generate sustainable animal feed.
Representatives of 175 countries voted to start developing a global treaty to reduce plastic waste. Treaties addressing mercury, long-range air pollution and ozone depletion offer some lessons.
New production methods, consumer trends and good ideas have the potential to bring manufacturing back into city centres. Can it coexist with housing?
There are myriad benefits to recycling human waste but our reluctance seems to be based on distaste.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor of Resource Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, ESCP Business School
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Professor of Strategy, Economics and Foresights, Hult International Business School
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Associate Professor and Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Applied Environmental Science, University of Southampton
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Reader in Fashion, Marketing and Sustainability, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Associate Professor, Global Management Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor of Technology Management and Circular Economy, University of Bradford
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster
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Chair in Sustainable Enterprise, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Senior lecturer, Curtin University
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Senior Research Officer, BehaviourWorks Australia (Monash Sustainable Development Institute), Monash University
