If only the story had ended there. Despite that legislative success, the poorer nations of the world have never stopped being ...

Global Production Every year, the world produces a staggering 400 million tons of plastic. This sheer volume of production is ...

Vishwanath Mallabadi Davangere: The e-waste artist Vishwanath Mallabadi Davangere, a former engineer from Bengaluru, collects discarded electronic components — circuit boards, wires, and microchips — ...

In Nigeria, informal collectors of plastic bottle waste are central to resolving the clash between its environmental costs ...

Kakadellis suggests that a path forward will also necessitate shifting the way consumers think about certain waste management strategies — like composting. Grist thanks its sponsors. Become one.

“Circularity” in this sense refers to waste-management principles calling for the end of life of a product to be designed for the object’s reuse or recycling. The first step is to design ...