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    waste Insights
    Cities
    Latin America
    Insights
    September 12, 2024

    E-Tricycles Are Powering a Recycling Revolution in Fortaleza, Brazil

    • Cities
    • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
    • waste
    • Urban Mobility
    • Urban Development
    • Urban Transformations
    People handle large bags of recyclables outside a waste collection center.
    • Cities
    • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
    • waste
    • Urban Mobility
    • Urban Development
    • Urban Transformations
    Business
    Africa
    Insights
    December 2, 2021

    How a Partnership in Kenya Recycled 100,000 Kilograms of Fashion Waste

    • waste
    • circular economy
    Three recycling bins against a wall filled with garments to be recycled.
    • waste
    • circular economy
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America Oceania North America Europe
    Insights
    April 6, 2021

    4 Ways to Reduce Plastic Pollution

    • Business
    • circular economy
    • coronavirus
    • waste
    • Ocean
    • pollution
    • regulation
    Plastic waits for recycling landfill in the Philippines.
    • Business
    • circular economy
    • coronavirus
    • waste
    • Ocean
    • pollution
    • regulation
    Business
    Insights
    August 6, 2020

    How to Build a Circular Economy

    • Economics
    • circular economy
    • waste
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • greenhouse gases
    • natural resources
    • Climate
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Two recycling facility workers next to bales of aluminum cans. Photo by Aaron Minnick | WRI.
    • Economics
    • circular economy
    • waste
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • greenhouse gases
    • natural resources
    • Climate
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Cities
    Insights
    December 18, 2019

    We're Underestimating How Many People Lack Sanitation Services—and Ignoring the Best Solution for Many Cities

    • Towards a More Equal City
    • sanitation
    • waste
    • Cities
    • world resources report
    Polluter waterways carry impacts of poor sanitation citywide. Photo by SusanA Secretariat/Flickr
    • Towards a More Equal City
    • sanitation
    • waste
    • Cities
    • world resources report
    Energy
    Insights
    April 30, 2019

    Kenya’s Farmers Battle Drought through Biodiesel Made from Cotton Waste

    • Humans of Clean Energy
    • waste
    • Energy
    Abel Mutie, a Kenyan farmer
    • Humans of Clean Energy
    • waste
    • Energy
    Asia
    Insights
    March 25, 2019

    Urban Transformations: In Pune, India, Waste Pickers Go from Trash to Treasure

    • Cities
    • Urban Transformations
    • waste
    • human rights
    • poverty
    Members of a waste-pickers cooperative push collection carts along the streets of Pune, India
    • Cities
    • Urban Transformations
    • waste
    • human rights
    • poverty
    Business
    Insights
    May 24, 2018

    Barriers to a Circular Economy: 5 Reasons the World Wastes So Much Stuff (and Why It's Not Just the Consumer's Fault)

    • circular economy
    • waste
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Plastic pollution piles up on a beach on Clipperton Atoll in the Pacific.
    • circular economy
    • waste
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Asia
    Insights
    March 22, 2017

    From Waste to Watts: How Sewage Could Help Fix India's Water, Energy and Sanitation Woes

    • Freshwater
    • Aqueduct
    • waste
    • renewable energy
    • wastewater
    • Water Quality
    • water risk
    Unkal tank
    • Freshwater
    • Aqueduct
    • waste
    • renewable energy
    • wastewater
    • Water Quality
    • water risk
    Asia
    Insights
    August 7, 2013

    In China, Waste No Time in Stopping Waste

    • Energy
    • waste
    • climate change
    • pollution
    • low carbon development
    • Energy
    • waste
    • climate change
    • pollution
    • low carbon development

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