Trash talk: article collections on where our waste ends up
What happens to our trash when we throw it away? How much actually gets recycled? We have gathered our top article collections on waste management. With collective views of over 1.7 million, researchers explored topics spanning from the behavioral analysis of using plastic bags and how to recycle building materials to technologies that filter out litter in the ocean and mapping where restaurant trash goes.
Article collections:
Food waste
10 articles | 143,000 views
A systematic approach to measuring food loss because reducing food waste is imperative to mitigating the impacts of climate change worldwide and to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals on food security, hunger eradication and sustainable production and consumption
Urban sanitation services
14 articles | 174,000 views
Critically evaluating existing alternative approaches to urban sanitation, introducing new city-wide equitable sanitation concepts and solutions and providing policy guidance towards adequate, equitable and safely managed urban sanitation services
Waste management
5 articles | 28,000 views
Addressing the growing interest in sustainable food systems, including management practices to reduce wastage and the ecological footprint of the firms at the end of the food chain like retail, accommodation and the F&B sector
Cleaning litter
18 articles | 51,000 views
Developing and demonstrating cost-efficient cleaning technologies and approaches, targeting the prevention and in situ management of visible and invisible marine litter at their point of introduction to the marine environment and to limit the amount of litter entering the sea
Plastic pollution
11 articles | 302,000 views
Understanding the environmental, social, and economical harm of plastics in the ocean and providing scientific support for a better management of plastic wastes
Waste behavior
15 articles | 199,000 views
Understanding secondary behavioral processes to design more cost-effective and powerful interventions to change a suite of behaviors or lifestyles in order to help address urgent societal and environmental problems, such as plastic waste reduction
Organic waste treatment
14 articles | 68,000 views
Highlighting the current knowledge on state-of-the-art processes and technologies to recover and re-use nutrients from wastes, especially animal by-products, agro-food wastes, and municipal wastes
Marine litter
15 articles | 395,000 views
Exploring all potential harms caused by marine litter, both to marine organisms as well as to the whole marine/estuarine environment and communities
Waste biorefineries
14 articles | 336,000 views
Focusing on the development of emerging waste-to-energy technologies, practical implementation, and lessons learned from sustainable waste management practices under waste biorefinery concept that will accelerate the development of circular economies in the world
Industrial waste
8 articles | 31,000 views
Advancing the application of recycled materials in structural and non-structural members in civil engineering, focusing on demolition waste like concrete, bricks, asphalt, and steel
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