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Tony Pritzker speaking at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) gala. Courtesy of IoES.

Tony Pritzker’s patient strategy for the planet

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Oct 2025
Waste burning in the Maldives. Open burning of plastic is a cheap way of reducing waste volume, but the practice is rife with health and environmental risks.

Global South bears growing burden of health threats from plastic burning

Mongabay.com 25 Aug 2025
A fisherman cleans the plastic waste caught in his net.

New coalition focuses on ‘reuse’ to tackle top polluter Indonesia’s plastic waste problem

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2025

Air quality study of East Java waste-to-energy plant sparks dispute, health warnings

Petrus Riski 16 Aug 2025
A woman sits under a tree surrounded by dry waste in East Java.

Burning, burying and banning: Indonesia’s cities struggle to manage their garbage

Jeff Hutton 23 Jul 2025
A waste site near Mombasa, Kenya. Separating plastic waste from growing mountains of domestic trash is a huge hurdle facing the world’s communities.

Open burning of plastic is an escalating public health threat, say experts

Sean Mowbray 17 Jul 2025

Scientists turn plastic waste into pain medicine

Bobby Bascomb 14 Jul 2025

Colombian waste pickers inundate iconic Bogota square with plastic bottles to protest falling wages

Associated Press 26 Jun 2025
Banner image of a forest in Finland by kallerna via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How did Finland lead the pursuit of a circular economy? Mongabay podcast explores

Mongabay.com 28 Apr 2025
Banner image of an electric vehicle charging by andreas160578 via Pixabay.

EV supply chain & transport need redesign, Mongabay podcast shows

Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2025

Indonesia bets on ‘reuse’ to curb plastic waste and build a circular economy

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Apr 2025
An entangled fish

Underwater citizen science reveals the specter of ghost fishing in Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 30 Jan 2025

Recycling gold can tackle illegal mining in the Amazon, but is no silver bullet

Sarah Brown 13 Dec 2024

Regifting and thrifting for sustainable holiday gift ideas

Bobby Bascomb 11 Dec 2024

Researchers propose a ‘circular economy’ solution to housing affordability against climate change

Mike DiGirolamo 3 Dec 2024
Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology’s Lappeenranta campus.

As nations develop circular economy plans, Finland’s top expert shares how they lead the way

Mike DiGirolamo 19 Nov 2024
Workers in "Agbogbloshie," a site with electronic scrap material, in Ghana, 2011.

Ever-smarter consumer electronics push world toward environmental brink

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 30 Sep 2024
A steel production site in China.

Aluminum and steel vital to energy transition, but need circular solutions

Sean Mowbray 18 Sep 2024
Bioplastics drying during a testing setting.

Most ‘compostable’ bioplastics are anything but, says new report

Alden Wicker 31 Jul 2024
A excavator in a landfill in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh incinerator project sparks row between government & contractor

Kamran Reza Chowdhury 26 Jun 2024
Bioplastic samples in a lab.

Bioplastics as toxic as regular plastics; both need regulation, say researchers

Alden Wicker 22 Apr 2024
Workers loading cement.

Circular solutions vital to curb enviro harm from cement and concrete

Sean Mowbray 18 Apr 2024
Officers sort waste at a waste processing site in Bogor City, West Java.

Communities on troubled Java river mold future from plastic waste

Donny Iqbal 1 Feb 2024

Can bioplastics shape a greener future?

Abhishyant Kidangoor, Mike DiGirolamo 30 Jan 2024
Tracegrow, a Finnish company, uses recycled batteries and industrial waste to create agricultural fertilizers.

Lessons from Finland’s attempt to transition to a circular economy

Sean Mowbray 23 Jan 2024

Rolling towards circularity? Tracking the trace of tires

Abhishyant Kidangoor, Sandy Watt 12 Jan 2024
A waste processing management facility

Chemical recycling of plastic not so fantastic, report finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Nov 2023
wind farm

Colombian wind farm end-of-life raises circularity and Indigenous questions

Natalia Torres Garzón 9 Nov 2023
Arg-e Bam in Iran, a trading center on the famous Silk Road, known to be the largest adobe building in the world.

What’s old is new again: Bioarchitects plot route to circular economy

Sandra Weiss 26 Oct 2023
The Deekali Project: Women washing plastic waste to prepare for the grinding machine at a local recycling facility in Senegal.

As companies buy ‘plastic credits,’ are they reducing waste or greenwashing?

Charles Pekow 19 Oct 2023
Tires by the road.

Rolling car tires into the global circular economy

Sean Mowbray 21 Aug 2023
A worker at Stable Packaging sorts plastic waste ready for recycling.

Zimbabwe sees recycling boom as waste picking becomes lucrative business

Tatenda Chitagu 21 Aug 2023

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