The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) has issued a fresh directive to all County Governments, reinforcing the implementation of the Sustainable Waste Management Act (SWMA) and the Waste ...
Discarded food not only burdens our waste management systems; it also is a growing offender in our climate crisis. "Food waste, if it was its own country, would actually be the third largest emitter ...
Most food waste doesn’t come from bad cooking or poor planning. It comes from small everyday habits that quietly pile up, like buying a little too much, forgetting what’s already in the fridge, or ...
Over the last five years, Lesly Baesens and her team have been enthusiastically digging through Denver residents’ garbage cans. They call the practice “waste auditing.” And with each unopened bag of ...
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Gulbanu Kaptan was awarded research funding (with project partners WRAP and Zero Waste Scotland) from the UKRI ESRC for a project on reducing household food waste (2020-2022). She is a Co-investigator ...
Millions of recyclable materials are put into incorrect waste streams every year. The UK startup Greyparrot uses AI to help mitigate environmental harm from improper waste disposal. This article is ...