When Jeff Gold founded Nexus Fuels (now Nexus Circular) in 2018, he was no greenhorn in environmental services—he first entered the field in the eighties. “The whole idea here, at least from my perspective, was to do something that would actually have a meaningful impact on the issue of plastic pollution—whether it be ocean plastics…
CEO Sees Innovation as a Solution to Plastic Pollution
October 22, 2021
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Residents of Japanese Town Recycle Over 80 Percent of Their Trash, Strive for ‘Zero Waste’
The town of Kamikatsu on the Japanese island of Shikoku has become famous for a notable absence: trash. After almost two decades practicing a low-waste economy, some among the town’s roughly 1,500 inhabitants claim that change is possible. Kamikatsu was doing almost no recycling in the 1990s. But a new law on carbon dioxide emissions forced the town’s…
Treasure Chest of Resources Going To Waste in Australia: Expert
Australia is currently letting a wealth of resources go to waste, argues an expert from Swinburne University, who believes the country is missing out on an incredible opportunity to recover and repurpose precious resources from old or broken mobile phones. Professor Alan Duffy, an astrophysicist from Swinburne University, said that while the phones themselves may…
Zero Waste Lab Turns Plastic Trash Into Multi-Use Public Furniture Using 3D Printing
A zero-waste project from the Netherlands is using 3D-printing technology to turn plastic trash into stylish urban furniture. Zero Waste Lab by The New Raw, a collaboration between Rotterdam-based architects Panos Sakkas and Foteini Setaki, makes everything from park benches to work stations to dinner tables, encouraging people to think about the impact of single-use…
Victoria Fast-Tracking Regional Recycling
Victoria has injected $20 million to fast-track regional recycling infrastructure as they work towards implementing a new four-bin system that separates household waste into rubbish, recycling, glass, and green waste. “We are revolutionising recycling across Victoria. By separating household waste into four categories, we’re making the most of the material and making sure we reduce…
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