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Our practice is focused on investigating value chains and making waste materials come to life again. This is the rebirth of materials that were once exiled to towering landfills or incinerators.
GAIA is a worldwide alliance of more than 800 grassroots groups, non-governmental organizations, and individuals in over 90 countries whose ultimate vision is a just, toxic-free world without incineration.
CARACTÉRISATION DE DÉCHETS, PARTOUT, EN DIRECT, EN CONTINU
This research explores the disruption of centralised waste facilities to accommodate a decentralised model, known as the mini-MRF, that is capable of extracting more value out of waste streams. Centralised facilities possess a hoax of challenges, be it their complex infrastructure or high capital and operational costs. With that said, existing systems characterise an unsustainable solution for long-term waste management, and a worthy solution to these issues is crucial for effective management of our planet’s resources.
Después de vivir en un futuro
en el que aún hay gente que tiene dudas
sobre el reciclaje, nuestro Bot ha decidido
viajar a nuestro tiempo para ayudarnos
y contestar a nuestras preguntas.
en el que aún hay gente que tiene dudas
sobre el reciclaje, nuestro Bot ha decidido
viajar a nuestro tiempo para ayudarnos
y contestar a nuestras preguntas.
The chatarreros are Barcelona’s itinerant scrap-metal collectors, and there are thousands of them. Most are undocumented migrants and so there is no official census, but Federico Demaria, a social scientist at the University of Barcelona who is conducting a study of the informal recyclers in Catalonia, believes there are between 50,000 and 100,000 in the region. About half are from sub-Saharan Africa; the rest are from eastern Europe, elsewhere in Africa and Spain.
Behind the high walls on the outskirts of Cairo is a mostly Coptic Christian community, known as the Zabaleen - a derogatory term for garbage men.
Settling in an abandoned quarry, they became the informal waste disposal experts of the city in the 70s, collecting rubbish from the capital's streets for free and bringing it back to their homes to recycle it.
Sorting is done by hand - the plastics are separated from the cardboard, the clothes from the organic waste, before they're sold on to the next layer of the community's refuse economy.
Settling in an abandoned quarry, they became the informal waste disposal experts of the city in the 70s, collecting rubbish from the capital's streets for free and bringing it back to their homes to recycle it.
Sorting is done by hand - the plastics are separated from the cardboard, the clothes from the organic waste, before they're sold on to the next layer of the community's refuse economy.
Many cities like Indore, Surat, Navi Mumbai, Ambikapur, Mysuru have been successfully implementing circular economy concepts and have showcased excellent models for effective waste management. In fact, Indore was declared the cleanest city in India for the fourth time in a row under the Swachh Survekshan 2020. Indore’s continuous success in the sector deserves accolades for consistent efforts and diligent planning for the entire waste value chain. The Indore model provides several examples that other cities can and should adopt.
We have listed all 210 Resource Recovery Points of the Chennai Corporation. Buyers and Sellers registration is increasing every day.
Chennai has become the first city to have an online waste exchange for municipal solid waste.
Residents who want to sell their waste online will be able to contact 2,600 scrap dealers and other agencies across the city.
The Madras Waste Exchange, which is both a web portal and an application, has been conceptualised by the Smart City Mission, with support from the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. The web portal is www.madraswasteexchange.com and the Android app can be downloaded from Google Play.
Residents who want to sell their waste online will be able to contact 2,600 scrap dealers and other agencies across the city.
The Madras Waste Exchange, which is both a web portal and an application, has been conceptualised by the Smart City Mission, with support from the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. The web portal is www.madraswasteexchange.com and the Android app can be downloaded from Google Play.
An Online Marketplace for Recyclable Waste
The global movement envisioning a future free from plastic pollution.
Spain’s second largest area just released its zero waste strategy plan with clear objectives for 2025.
The Zero Waste Cities approach is a continuous effort to phase out waste – not by burning or landfilling it – but instead by creating and implementing systems that do not generate waste in the first place
Creating the Junkyard Planet. Adam Minter Talks Circular Economy and Christmas Tree Lights - YouTube
Adam Minter, author of Junkyard Planet, stopped by iFixit Headquarters to give an super interesting talk on rethinking e-waste, the circular economy and the fate of all your thrown away Christmas tree lights. Adam's an amazing author and an even better speaker so we hope you enjoy his talk as much as we did.
Recycleye has partnered with academics at leading universities to create WasteNet; the world’s largest dataset for waste, holding over 2.5 million training images created by deep learning and computer vision.
These datasets are refined by weight and brand-level detection enabled through Recycleye’s vision system. This technology holds world-leading accuracy that has disrupted the waste industry, and is revolutionising the current waste infrastructure.
These datasets are refined by weight and brand-level detection enabled through Recycleye’s vision system. This technology holds world-leading accuracy that has disrupted the waste industry, and is revolutionising the current waste infrastructure.
This pains me to write, but we all have to come to terms with the harsh reality that recycling validates waste and is a placebo to the complex waste crisis we have designed ourselves into. The things you are separating and putting in your recycling bins are probably not being recycled — and there’s a good chance that they are ending up somewhere you never imagined.
Precious Plastic exists to reduce plastic waste.
Sometimes we do it through boosting recycling. Sometimes through new biodegradable materials. Some other time by adopting zero waste lifestyles.
Whatever works.
Sometimes we do it through boosting recycling. Sometimes through new biodegradable materials. Some other time by adopting zero waste lifestyles.
Whatever works.
La población española genera más de 400 kilos de basura al año por persona.
Solo un 20% de esos 400 kilos se recicla, mientras que el 60% acaba en vertederos. El volumen de residuos que genera la ciudad supone un enorme impacto en el consumo de energía y en el medio ambiente.
En MARES creemos que estos residuos se pueden gestionar de otra forma. Podemos alargar la vida útil de los objetos, reutilizarlos y repararlos. En este terreno hay un enorme abanico de posibilidades para crear empresas e iniciativas: desde el reciclaje de residuos hasta el reciclaje de muebles, de juguetes, de ropa o de comida. Es posible romper con la lógica del usar y tirar, y sustituirla por una economía que apueste por reciclar, reutilizar y reparar.
Solo un 20% de esos 400 kilos se recicla, mientras que el 60% acaba en vertederos. El volumen de residuos que genera la ciudad supone un enorme impacto en el consumo de energía y en el medio ambiente.
En MARES creemos que estos residuos se pueden gestionar de otra forma. Podemos alargar la vida útil de los objetos, reutilizarlos y repararlos. En este terreno hay un enorme abanico de posibilidades para crear empresas e iniciativas: desde el reciclaje de residuos hasta el reciclaje de muebles, de juguetes, de ropa o de comida. Es posible romper con la lógica del usar y tirar, y sustituirla por una economía que apueste por reciclar, reutilizar y reparar.
In your experienced opinion, is it necessary to install some kind of ventilator or air cleaner in a space where the plastics are being melted? For example, I live in Canada where we are under snow for half the year, so very likely that we would not be opening windows! If it is not necessary, how can I explain/convince my community that I am not polluting the air?