Torik Holmes examines the increasing prevalence of flexible plastic packaging and its limited recyclability to argue for urgent, coordinated UK policy reforms.
Category: Waste management
No room for waste – unlocking the potential of landfill mining
Pawan Srikanth and Daniel Welch explore how legacy landfill sites across the UK offer pathways for the UK’s net zero and circular economy goals.
(Re)making infrastructures in response to sustainability and climate emergencies: Challenges, strategies, and opportunities
Torik Holmes, Carla De Laurentis, and Rebecca Windemer examine how infrastructures are acting as platforms through which solutions to climate emergencies can transpire.
Waste management and COVID-19 – What have we learnt so far?
Mariel Vilella discusses how COVID-19 has shaken up our waste management systems.
How coronavirus reveals our unbreakable bond with single use plastic
As coronavirus bears down on society, single-use plastic steps up in an unprecedented way.
How to solve the ‘monster’ fatberg problem
Fatbergs – enormous solid masses of oil, grease, wet wipes and other hygiene products that congeal together to cause major blockages – are wreaking havoc on the sewers of cities around the world.
The wider environmental effects of food and drink packaging
Cary Monreal Clark discusses the wider environmental effects of food and drink packaging in his latest blog.
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