Waste

General

• WP: Waste_hierarchy - a tool used in the evaluation of processes that protect the environment alongside resource and energy consumption from most favourable to least favourable actions. The hierarchy establishes preferred program priorities based on sustainability. To be sustainable, waste management cannot be solved only with technical end-of-pipe solutions and an integrated approach is necessary. The waste management hierarchy indicates an order of preference for action to reduce and manage waste, and is usually presented diagrammatically in the form of a pyramid. The hierarchy captures the progression of a material or product through successive stages of waste management, and represents the latter part of the life-cycle for each product. The aim of the waste hierarchy is to extract the maximum practical benefits from products and to generate the minimum amount of waste. The proper application of the waste hierarchy can have several benefits. It can help prevent emissions of greenhouse gases, reduces pollutants, save energy, conserves resources, create jobs and stimulate the development of green technologies.

Recycling

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13130031

• Plastics: What’s Recyclable, What Becomes Trash — And Why - [1]

• A Big Bang for Plastic Recycling - [2]

Pollution

• German plastics group highlights success of bottle deposits in recycling | Hacker News

• Billions of air pollution particles found in hearts of city dwellers | Society | The Guardian

• Plastic particles found in bottled water - BBC News

• Microplastics: Premium teabags leak billions of particles - study - BBC News

• Plastic Teabags Release Billions of Microparticles and Nanoparticles into Tea | Environmental Science & Technology

• Microplastics found in 'pristine' Pyrenees mountains - BBC News