sustainability • ethics • climate • waste • renewables • ecology • poverty • equality
The Waste section examines how societies produce, manage, and rethink the materials we discard. Here you’ll find stories on circular economy models, recycling realities, plastic pollution, food waste, and the innovations — small and large — that aim to reduce our collective footprint.
We look beyond simple solutions to uncover the economic, cultural, and policy dynamics that shape global waste systems. This category offers practical insight and critical context for anyone interested in transforming a throwaway culture into one where resources are valued and cycles are closed.
The banning of disposable plastic water bottles is the most reasonable, sustainable, and conscientious plan for the future; and this ban should begin now.
Recycled paper can save the Earth, and in developed countries it’s very easy to purchase, yet not nearly enough people are making the switch.
Could the end of capitalism pave the way from a reduction in our creation of garbage, towards a truly sustainable future?